Why make a big deal about impeachment if its a dead issue? Its just a partisan talking point to rile the bases.
Impeachment is NOT dead issue, but the House is a long way from impeachment hearings. They still don't have the unredacted Mueller Report. The also need the National Security Investigation Report, and they need testimoney from McGahn, and Mueller. It is WAY to soon to discuss impeachment.
I know Trump wants impeachment desperately, because he thinks he will appear sympathetic. He won't. He's not Bill Clinton. He't not a man, innocent of any wrong doing, being pursued relentless by a Republican Party bent on revenge for Iran Contra. Trump is a conman and a public embarassment, who has lied throughout his campaign, enthusiastically accepted help from the Russians, and who has systematically vilified and fired every senior intelligence official who made the finding of Russian interference.
It's telling that he wouldn't sit down for questions with Mueller, or do ANYTHING to prevent another Russian attack in 2020, but he continues to try to have his political opponents investigated, and he discussed the Mueller Report on the telephone for 90 minutes with Vladimir Putin.