Speaking on NBC’s Today show this morning, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, who is presumed to be elected Speaker of the House this afternoon when the 116th Congress convenes, said she does not believe the Department of Justice’s guidance that states a sitting president cannot be indicted is "conclusive."
"Let’s just see what Mueller does," she added.
When pressed further on the issue, Pelosi said, “Everything indicates that a president can be indicted after he is no longer president.”
“A president who is in office,” NBC's Savannah Guthrie pressed. “Could Robert Muller come back and say, ‘I am seeking an indictment?’”
“I think that that is an open discussion,” Pelosi said. “I think that is an open discussion in terms of the law.”
When asked about impeachment proceedings and if she would rule them out completely, Pelosi said this:
"Well, we have to wait and see what happens with the Mueller report. We shouldn’t be impeaching for a political reason, and we shouldn’t avoid impeachment for a political reason.”
But not all Democrats think it's too early to talk impeachment
Rep. Brad Sherman, a California Democrat, plans to re-introduce articles of impeachment against Trump on the first day of the new Congress, according to his spokesman.
Sherman was one of three Democrats who introduced resolutions to impeach Trump in 2017, along with Reps. Al Green of Texas and Steve Cohen of Tennessee, part of an effort from a small wing of House Democrats to push seeking to remove the President from office.