Inside the decision to impeach Trump: How both parties wrestled with a constitutional crisis

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sat quietly at the head of the long table inside her ornate conference room early this month, listening as her deputies debated the last major decision in the impeachment of President Trump.

Her senior lieutenants argued for an expansive bill of charges encompassing the Mueller report. Others pressed for articles of impeachment focused solely on Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to help his reelection bid.

Ultimately, it didn’t matter. Pelosi had all but made up her mind.