Steny Hoyer warns that an indictment of Trump would prevent Dems from relying on other promises

House Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer, D-MD, told Fox News on Wednesday "Your world with Neil Cavuto" that a possible impeachment proceeding against President Trump would turn into "a huge distraction" of the party's legislative program "without probability of success."

"This is eluding us, as a process of dismissal is an extremely tedious process, which holds the attention of the public and Congress," said Hoyer to Cavuto. "And we promised the Americans to focus on them, their jobs, their health care, the availability of affordable quality health care, climate change and reform issues."

Hoyer said he agreed with House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., Who told The Washington Post that she was opposed to Trump's removal from office in the absence of "convincing and overwhelming and bipartisan" evidence, adding that the President does not it. "

"We will have elections in about 18 months," Hoyer said. "The American people elected someone who, in my opinion, should not be president of the United States, but they elected him, and a lot will happen in the next few months, probably in a few months, the Mueller report, the actions of the Southern District of New Hearings of the House and Senate in York – hearings of the House in particular, and we will see what happens there. "

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Pelosi's statement ruffled the feathers of some of the most outspoken left-wing democrats, who promised to demand the removal of Trump. Hoyer shot a verbal shot at the representatives. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota on Monday, telling Fox News that "we have 62 news [Democratic] members. Not three. "

"It's not that President Pelosi and I want to see President Trump [be] The President of the United States, because we do not agree with him and that we think he's doing things that are not good for the country, "said Hoyer Wednesday," but we We have the responsibility to do what we think is good for the country and we want to be on it. "