Pelosi says public opinion shifting on impeachment

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said that public opinion is now on the side of an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump following the release of new information about his conversations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

For month, Ms Pelosi took a cautious approach in weighing the calls of other Democratic House members to launch impeachment proceedings against the president, which grew louder after former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified on 24 July about his probe of Mr Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 election.

In a 25 July telephone call between Mr Trump and Mr Zelenskiy, the US leader asked his counterpart to launch an investigation of Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, who had served on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.President Trump has blasted the impeachment inquiry, arguing that he did nothing wrong and accusing Democrats of launching a politically motivated "witch hunt".

The impeachment inquiry has cast a new pall over Mr Trump's presidency just months after he emerged from the shadow cast by Mr Mueller's investigation.

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