Pelosi faces rising pressure to launch impeachment inquiry

But the speaker is resisting the push, fearful that it would hurt Democrats at the polls.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn’t want to impeach President Donald Trump, but a growing number of her members are trying to drag her there.

Despite repeated pronouncements from the California Democrat that she doesn’t want to try to remove Trump from office — including taking a hard line in a tense leadership meeting Monday night — Pelosi faces increasing calls from her rank and file to trigger an impeachment inquiry.

"It's time to start," said...