WASHINGTON – Democrats aren’t moving to impeach President Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday, while cautioning the findings of congressional investigations probing the president’s conduct could change their stance.

The current investigations “may take us to a place that is unavoidable in terms of impeachment, or not, but we’re not at that place,” the California Democrat told reporters.

Two Democrats in Colorado’s congressional delegation — U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette of Denver and U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse of Lafayette — have called for an impeachment inquiry to begin.

Pelosi also addressed an awkward meeting with Trump the previous day. On Wednesday, Trump abruptly ended a planned discussion on infrastructure at the White House with Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.). He told them that the talks were off, blaming Pelosi for her earlier comment that the president was engaged in a “coverup” by blocking congressional investigators’ subpoenas.

Pelosi said she believes Trump was frustrated by court rulings this week. Two federal judges rejected Trump’s efforts to block subpoenas that House Democrats have sent asking for financial documents related to his business and family. The president’s lawyers are appealing both rulings.

“I think what really got to him was these court cases and the fact that the House Democratic caucus is not on a path to impeachment and that’s where he wants us to be,” Pelosi said.

In tweets Thursday morning, Trump defended his demeanor in Wednesday’s meeting with lawmakers as “extremely calm” and accused Democrats of being interested only in investigating him and not in legislating.

“The Democrats are getting nothing done in Congress,” he wrote. “It is not possible for them to investigate and legislate at the same time.”

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, speaking to CNN Thursday, echoed the president’s remarks.

“You can’t literally have a meeting like Nancy Pelosi did yesterday – just an hour before she got to the White House where she accused the president of a crime, said he had engaged in a coverup – and show up and pretend like nothing has happened, and let’s sit down and talk about roads and bridges,” she said. “It doesn’t work that way.”

Pelosi has privately cautioned fellow Democrats against calling for impeachment, seeing it as politically risky headed into the 2020 election where the party is hoping to maintain its majority in the House.

Impeachment has never removed a president from office, and should the House vote to impeach, the effort would likely go nowhere in the Republican-controlled Senate, where a two-thirds vote would be needed to remove Trump from office.

Roughly two-dozen House Democrats have called for impeaching the president, or for the Judiciary Committee to open a formal inquiry into impeachment.

The calls for impeachment are largely coming from the party’s left flank, though in recent days some members in swing districts have said they see an impeachment inquiry as inevitable, should the president continue to block requests from Congress.

Trump has called Democrats’ current probes an effort at a “do-over” of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Democrats say they have a duty to conduct oversight.

Mueller in his report said he couldn’t establish a conspiracy between Trump’s campaign and Russia to interfere in the 2016 election. He also decided not to charge the president with obstruction of justice, saying he was guided in part by a Justice Department policy against charging sitting presidents, but said he didn’t believe the evidence exonerated Trump.

In a closed-door meeting of Democrats on Thursday morning, Pelosi said President Trump is trying to bait them into pursuing impeachment, according to a Democratic aide.

“Make no mistake – he wants to be impeached. His actions are villainous to the Constitution of the United States,” Pelosi said, according to the aide.