Democrats' Council of War
Pelosi met with House Democrats on Tuesday afternoon to discuss what action to take as an increasing number of her members say they'd support impeachment proceedings against Trump.
Speaking to reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York, Trump argued that if Democrats do proceed with impeachment, it will be good for him.
"The good news is the voters get it," Trump said. "This is why they say it's good for the election, but you know what? It's bad for the country, what she's doing is very bad."
Meanwhile, Biden was among the Democrats changing his tune on impeachment on Tuesday.
A campaign aide said that unless the White House releases the relevant materials connected to the matter, Biden would throw his support behind Pelosi and the House in pursuing impeachment.
Biden addressed the impeachment issue himself on Tuesday afternoon.
The Much-Anticipated Transcript
Trump has acknowledged discussing Biden with Zelensky earlier this summer.
That followed his decision to suspend military assistance to Ukraine. Trump has insisted that there was never a "quid pro quo" in which he said he'd agree to release aid to Ukraine in exchange for dirt on Biden or his family.
One question the transcript could answer is what, specifically, Trump said to Zelensky about investigating Biden's son, Hunter, who once sat on the board of a Ukrainian gas company.
Trump has gone back and forth about whether he might release the transcript, saying on one hand that it might clear up the Ukraine affair but on the other hand he was worried about the precedent it might set.
Trump also has said it was a "perfect" call, mostly congratulatory about Zelensky's election two months before, and that it contained nothing "inappropriate," because the president was mindful about the number of U.S. officials and others who might hear it or be briefed on its contents.
At the same time, Trump acknowledged on Tuesday that he had suspended U.S. assistance to Ukraine before the phone call. The reason the president gave in New York City on Tuesday was that he wanted European governments to give more support to Ukraine's government.
The European Union's mission to the United States responded on Tuesday that its governments have given more than 15 billion euros to Ukraine since Russia's incursions there in 2014, which began the latest phase of support from the West for Kyiv.