You might want to take a look at the Daily Mail. I just printed up a story on their website that says that the White House itself is putting this out as bait. The object is; according to the article, to destroy the GOP’s creditability.
This was a ploy during the election campaign also. “Don’t talk about impeachment! That’s what the Democrats want you to do!” Okay, we can play The Election Is Now Over too. Time to talk about what we really want without scaring the Dems.