(CNN) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi argued Tuesday that President Donald Trump is trying to provoke Democrats into proceeding with impeachment, using some of her strongest language yet on the issue.

"Trump is goading us to impeach him," she said at an event in New York City hosted by the Cornell University Institute of Politics and Global Affairs. "That's what he's doing. Every single day, he's just like taunting, taunting, taunting because he knows that it would be very divisive in the country, but he doesn't really care. He just wants to solidify his base."

But while she has taken a cautious approach to the issue of impeachment, Pelosi has also been quick to defend congressional oversight of the administration and appears to be publicly growing frustrated with stonewalling from the White House.

Pelosi reiterated on Tuesday that she wants to continue with the process of gathering more information, saying "we have to see where the facts take us" and warning that Democrats will "be ready" for whatever may come.

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