the indictment "is not worth it at this point," says Steny Hoyer

In the wake of the highly anticipated release on Thursday, prominent congressional Democrats have expressed serious concerns about the president's conduct as detailed in the report and have indicated that their own investigations into the president and his administration would continue. . Democrats now demand that Mueller testify before Congress, reiterating his demands for access to the full, unredacted report and criticizing the way the Attorney General handled his deployment.

Since winning a majority in the House in the 2018 mid-term elections, Democratic House leaders have been striving to prevent any discussion of a possible indictment, while only a Democrats in the House, modest but assertive, pleaded for its continuation. Last month, Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi hit the headlines and told the Washington Post: "I am not in favor of dismissal", saying that removal would be a divisive factor for the country and that Trump "is just not worth it".

At a press conference held on Thursday, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler said the indictment was "one possibility" among others to hold the president accountable, stating: "We must of course get to the bottom of things and take the steps that seem necessary at that time."

But Nadler suggested that it would be premature to talk about impeachment now.

"It is too early to reach these conclusions," he said.

Asked that the Mueller report would provide a "road map" if the Democrats initiated impeachment proceedings, the New York Democrat also said, "It is too early to talk about it," adding that "we will have to follow the where they lead them ".

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said at a separate press conference that "the facts that are now established by this report are overwhelming".

But when asked if what he saw in the report reached the level at which dismissal was to be considered, the California Democrat replied, "We must look at the report in its entirety."

"The evidence should be pretty huge and demonstrable, so as to generate bipartisan support for the idea of ​​rendering the president unfit for power," Schiff told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, adding that "unless that it would not be a bipartisan conclusion, an impeachment would be doomed to failure, I still think that a failed dismissal is not in the national interest. "

Delean Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton of the District of Columbia takes a more direct approach to the subject of impeachment, effectively warning her colleagues in a statement that it would be "futile" and would be a way to "waste our first majority for eight years" .

"With the release of the Mueller report, issues of impeachment will receive a new life," Norton said.

But, she warned, "Even if the House had a majority for impeachment, the Senate, controlled by the Republicans, would not have 2/3 needed to be convicted."

"What a waste to waste our first majority in eight years on an unnecessary dismissal process," she said. "The public expects the Democrats to show something to the majority they've offered us." Trump's obstruction of justice, which many Americans think to see it is still on the table, which leaves a lot to be investigated by the Congress, but that does not change my point of view, that removal will take us on a path that leads nowhere. "

But not all members of Congress believe that impeachment should be removed from the table. Republican Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the most prominent personalities of the class of freshmen in historic house, tweeted Thursday that she was engaging in a proposal for dismissal led by fellow freshman Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.

This story has been updated with additional developments on Thursday.