House Democratic leaders tamped down calls to kick-start impeachment proceedings against President Trump following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report last week, telling rank-and-file lawmakers in a call Monday evening they have no plans to immediately pursue impeachment, 3 officials on the call told the Washington Post.
"We can investigate Trump without drafting articles. We aren't going to go faster, we are going to go as fast as the facts take us."
Responding to continued fallout over the Mueller report on Monday, President Trump told reporters during the White House Easter Egg Roll that "nobody disobeys my orders," and that he's not at all worried about the threat of impeachment from the Democrat-controlled House.
Reality check: On page 158 of the Mueller report's section on obstruction, the special counsel writes: "The President's efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests."
President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump on Monday greeted and hosted children and their families on the White House South Lawn for the 141st annual Easter Egg Roll.
Details: Trump took the opportunity to praise the continued strong performance of the job market and the economy, for which he took credit. About 30,000 people were expected to attend the event, a tradition that dates back to 1878.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s latest big 2020 idea: A $640 billion student loan debt cancellation, funded by a tax on the rich.
Why it matters: Student loan debt is becoming a top 2020 political issue, testing candidates on how to keep Americans' student loan debt from further increasing. Warren wants to finance the proposal, like many of her others, with her "ultra-millionaire tax," she wrote in a Medium post on Monday.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) officially launched his 2020 presidential campaign on Monday.
The big picture: Moulton, an Iraq War veteran who led an infantry platoon while serving in the Marines, plans to make foreign policy, national security and defense his key issues. Axios' Mike Allen scooped last week that Moulton would be jumping into the race after he was spotted filming a launch video in his hometown of Marblehead, Mass.
The redacted Mueller report revealed more than a dozen administration officials, White House staff, Trump campaign staff or former members of President Trump's cabinet who had previously unreported interviews with the special counsel's prosecutors.
Three days after the release of the Mueller report, almost every 2020 Democratic candidate has responded to its explosive contents.
Driving the news: Sen. Elizabeth Warren became the first candidate to call for the impeachment of President Trump, differentiating herself from the rest of the primary field. On Friday, she slammed Trump for welcoming a "hostile" foreign government and obstructing the subsequent investigation.
Immigrants accounted for almost half of all population growth in the United States between 2017 and 2018, according to newly released Census Bureau data.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) sees his role as "not just the center of the resistance" against President Trump but as a "positive alternative" to him, he told CNN's "The Van Jones Show" Saturday.
What he's saying: "If he attacks our diversity, if he attacks people, demeans them and dehumanizes people, I’m going to stand up for them," Newsom told host Van Jones, adding he'd do the same on efforts against clean air, clean water and the Affordable Care Act. "I do govern the most un-Trump state in America ..."
President Trump attacked Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) Saturday for his 2012 presidential election loss after the senator he was "sickened" by Mueller report revelations on the commander in chief.
Details: A day after Romney's comments following the release of the redacted report, Trump uploaded an accompanying video contrasting his 2016 election victory over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Romney's loss to President Obama to underscore his point.
