A few weeks ago, Americans got a sneak peek at what it will look like if Congress decides to impeach President Donald Trump . On Jan. 18, BuzzFeed News published a report alleging that Trump had ordered his fixer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about their efforts during the 2016 presidential campaign to secure Russian government approval to build a Trump Tower Moscow.

Congressional Democrats pounced on the allegation that the president had suborned perjury. It was evidence of obstruction of justice , a high crime and an impeachable offense , Democrats tweeted. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) promised to investigate.

Then, special counsel Robert Mueller disputed the report. (BuzzFeed stands by its reporting.)

Muellers intervention doused the latest excitement. But Democrats rapid-fire response revealed that they sense theyre heading toward an inevitable reckoning with this president.

Every day it becomes more and more difficult to say were not interested in impeachment, said one Democratic member of Congress.

Putting aside the disputed allegations in the BuzzFeed story, there are already more than a handful of potential areas of inquiry that carry the hallmarks of impeachable offenses. Trump fired FBI Director James Comey to relieve the great pressure of the investigation into whether his campaign conspired with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election. Before that, he asked Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to intervene to stop the FBI investigation . Trump has also been named as the Individual-1 in a criminal plea agreement who ordered Cohen to break campaign finance laws.

These are only some of Trumps known actions that directly recall the Articles of Impeachment for President Richard Nixon . There are still questions about Trumps potentially unconstitutional receipt of foreign emoluments , whether he violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by allegedly offering Russian President Vladimir Putin a $50 million penthouse condo in the proposed Trump Tower Moscow and whether he or his campaign conspired with Russia or another foreign country to illegally aid his election victory.

At some point its like if this guy did this bad stuff, he needs to be impeached and we need to do it even if theres a political cost to it, the Democratic member of Congress said.

Numerous Allegations Of Corruption And Obstruction