Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.) said she is not ready to impeach President Donald Trump until Congress conducts an independent investigation.
CNN's Erin Burnett asked Wasserman Schultz whether she thought her Democratic colleagues went too far by calling for Trump's impeachment.
Burnett's question was referencing some Congressional Democrats who have hinted at impeaching President Trump. For example, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) recently said it's "legitimate" to discuss impeaching Trump and stated that it's her "greatest desire is to lead him right into impeachment."
In her response, Wasserman Schultz never used the word "impeachment," but instead said that she would like to see Republicans and Democrats in Congress come together to conduct a bipartisan investigation in the public sphere.
She then criticized Trump and said it was "disturbing" that he knew his recently fired national security advisor Michael Flynn did not tell Vice President Mike Pence the whole truth about his conversations with Russia's foreign minister.
Burnett followed up and pointed out that Wasserman Schultz never answered her question and asked her whether discussing "impeachment" made her uncomfortable.
"I think we don't call for impeachment until you have an independent bipartisan investigation and we can get to the bottom of the possibility of high crimes and misdemeanors being committed," Wasserman Schultz said.
Wasserman went on to specify some of the potential crimes they would be investigating including those dating back to Trump's campaign last year.
"Collusion between a presidential campaign and a foreign enemy, essentially, who was found by our own united intelligence community, to have intentionally and successfully, put their thumb on the scale and helped elect Donald Trump as president of the United States," Wasserman Schultz said.