In slightly convoluted fashion, Pelousi recognizes that the Committee on the Judiciary doesn't have members or staff that are up to the tasks of questioning "experts" (what? no witnesses?) or navigating past the Fourth Amendment violations of wrested-and-grandiosely-lied-about phone records.
You probably recognized how completely scripted the back-and-forth between Dems, their counsel, their members and their experts was, right?
Unless it's Shillelagh Jackson Lee attempting to appear brighter than your average fence post, most have figured out that Democratic Congress member active participation has been ever increasingly curtailed. (Meanwhile, Republican member participation has been landing blow after blow.)
While Dem members can plausibly read a script set before them, they surely can't handle the thought processes of a substantive back-and-forth with (even Leftist blowhard) college professors given to lengthy pontification to fake a sense of natural flow.
So while the Dems have hired staff to do their bidding (on our tax dollar), they can't count on their membership to bring any dynamic, audience-felt sense of narrowing the closure toward a rising crescendo of PDJT's evidence-based deservedness, let alone the revelation of any smoking gun.
Enter Pelousi to demand Articles while most observers are still with, "Now, what would be the charge exactly?".
Turley is right. These proceedings don't rise to any reasonable standard of making a case for presidential impeachment. Instead of Pelousi using her usurped power over the committee, she should just let it die of its own ill-timed petard duddliness. It's a far better excuse that it just didn't roar out of the Judiciary Committee than to see all the Democratic corruption be exposed in a Senate Trial.
The Dems really need a good distraction to counter Durham's coming indictments. What is Pelousi left with? Bupkis!
You had me until the last line. Durham might get something. But I am discounting anything he does. Until we see it, let’s just assume it’s not going to happen.