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Kiros backs hearings but weighs impeachment's political cost

VICE News's Crooked Con report captures the pressure on Democrats to investigate the Trump administration while delivering on everyday costs.

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Democrats Have Power Again. How Far Will They Go?

Hearings are essential; presidential impeachment is a harder calculation. That is the distinction Colorado Representative-elect Melat Kiros draws in VICE News's report from Crooked Con in Washington, D.C., following Democrats' midterm victories.

"Everybody needs to be held accountable. Everybody needs to be hauled in for hearings, without question," Kiros says. But she is still weighing whether impeachment would justify the political capital it would consume. The report offers a debate over priorities, rather than an agreed Democratic plan.

VICE contrasts that caution with more aggressive demands from activists. It reports that Disrupt founder Carlos Calzadilla-Palacio urged indictments of the Trump administration. California Representative Robert Garcia delivers a conditional warning of his own: "If you're grifting, if you're ripping off the American people, if you're enriching yourself, you gotta lawyer up."

The report also notes House Speaker Mike Johnson's warning about Democratic committee investigations, before turning to the other demands facing the party: gas prices, food bills and tangible results.

Maryland Governor Wes Moore supplies the clearest expression of that urgency: "They're saying that we need you all to be able to get something done. Not tomorrow, not next year, not after a study. Get it done now."