So, the difference between Trump and Pence is Pence is a true believer.

Trump has no beliefs, no morals, no values, no ethics, no empathy, and no conscience. So, Pence was meant to balance that off during the campaign.

Where Trump is the polar opposite of Christian, Pence is a raving Christian nut on the level of Fred Phelps.

It's pretty well known that Pence and his family are completely disgusted by Donald Trump. Trump we know only acts in his own interests, he does not give fuck all about the country or the world. So, pretty easy to predict what he will do. He will always take the path that benefits him personally.

Pence is an entirely different animal. We would probably be somewhat better off with Pence in terms of our relationship with the world, domestic policy though...probably not.

I certainly don't want to see President Pence but President Trump is as dangerous a situation as we have ever had and whereas Trump has no loyalty at all to this country Pence probably at least is loyal to the United States.

As far as impeachment goes, well, nothing will happen at all until Mueller has wrapped up. The Democrats will be seated in the House at that point but without Mueller's report they will not act. They have said this repeatedly and I believe them.

Now, with Pelosi as speaker the story seems to be impeachment will only take place if the Republicans in the Senate tell her they want to impeach. If Senate Republicans do not tell Pelosi that, well, supposedly no impeachment.

That said, the rumor is Senate Republicans are discussing impeachment options so there are going to be serious bipartisan talks about doing it.

I don't know if it will happen or not. I have felt through most of this debacle that the most likely thing is Trump actually resigning.

Trump resigning would be the preferred option of all sides I think. Of course Trump has to be convinced of this but I have always felt that the thing that would convince him is his children facing jail time...and it is really looking like they have felony charges coming against Don Jr. and that both Eric and Ivanka also are in jeopardy of criminal charges as well.

If it starts to look like impeachment could happen my guess is there will be several Republicans sent to talk to Trump to convince him to resign.

I would like to see impeachment because it will, basically as Peter is suggesting, spill the entire bloody mess out in front of the country and the world. This way people would see what happened and wow, will that be ugly. Not sure how many politicians actually have the stomach for that though...and I am not just talking about Republicans.