Reaction was mixed Monday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's explosive comment to The Washington Post that impeachment of President Donald Trump would be divisive and that he is "just not worth it."
House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., backed up Pelosi's opposition, telling CNN "if the evidence isn't sufficient to win bipartisan support for this, putting the country through a failed impeachment isn't a good idea."
He added: "I think given how polarized the country is right now and given how the Republican members of Congress have prostrated themselves right now in front of the president, in the absence of very graphic evidence, it would be difficult to get the support of" the Senate.
But billionaire activist Tom Steyer pushed back on her comments, asking "is doing what's right 'worth it?'"
"Speaker Pelosi thinks 'he's just not worth it?'" Steyer said in a statement, The Hill reported.
"Well, is defending our legal system 'worth it?' Is holding the President accountable for his crimes and cover-ups 'worth it?' Is doing what's right 'worth it?' Or shall America just stop fighting for our principles and do what's politically convenient?"
Fox News host and commentator Howard Kurtz, however, tweeted Pelosi's remarks were "shrewd."
"Impeachment would just energize Trump's base and fail in the end just as they're asking voters to evict him," he wrote.
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