Rep. Maxine Waters Maxine Moore WatersPelosi: House will stay in session until agreement is reached on coronavirus relief Omar invokes father's death from coronavirus in reaction to Woodward book Business groups increasingly worried about death of filibuster MORE (D-Calif.) on Tuesday clarified that her comment that she would "take out Trump" was about impeachment, not about doing any physical harm to the president.

"That's absolutely ridiculous; nobody believes that a 79-year-old grandmother who is a congresswoman and who has been in Congress and politics for all of these years is talking about doing any harm," she said on CNN's "New Day."

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"The only harm that I may be doing to the president is I want him impeached," she said.

Waters said those who are opposed to her leadership are organizing an effort to try to defeat her in her upcoming election.

"Everybody knows that I'm on the front lines — not talking about any physical harm to anybody," she said. "But I am talking about impeachment, and I'm not going to stop."

Waters's clarification comes after remarks she made at the Ali Forney dinner, a gala for LGBT youth.