The chair of the Intelligence Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, Adam Schiff, has admitted the impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump because of his pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the staff of CNN’s State of the Union talk show has reported on Twitter.

“Rep. Adam Schiff says that if the reports about Pres. Trump’s conversation with Ukraine are proven true, then impeachment may be the only “remedy.” This seems different in kind and we may very well have crossed the Rubicon here,” the tweet reads.

Rep. Adam Schiff says that if the reports about Pres. Trump’s conversation with Ukraine are proven true, then impeachment may be the only “remedy.” “This seems different in kind and we may very well have crossed the Rubicon here.”

A scandal erupted in the United States when a whistleblowing intelligence officer who processed a July phone call between Trump and a “foreign leader,” who may be Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, filed a complaint to his leadership. He was worried by some of Trump’s remarks that, according to U.S. media outlets, could be interpreted as pressure on the Ukrainian side to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, who is on the board of a Ukrainian gas company.

On September 20, The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the situation, reported that Trump had urged Zelensky about eight times to work with his lawyer Rudy Giuliani on an investigation into Biden’s son, but had not offered anything in return.

Before the WSJ’s article was published, Trump repeatedly denied talking about “something inappropriate” with the foreign leader. In addition, he told reporters at the White House that he had not discussed with Zelensky any issues regarding Biden.

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