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While government officials investigate possible Trump impeachment, college students remain skeptical about what could come from the inquiry.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sept. 24 launched an informal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump following calls he made to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

A whistleblower complaint states Trump asked the Ukrainian leader to investigate 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. That claim is partially backed up by a of the phone call.

The fate of the upcoming 2020 election and the current President sparked conversation among D.C. campus voices.

Katherine Boyko, 18, a communications, legal institutions, economics and government major at American University, moved from Ukraine four-and-a-half-years ago and feels a personal connection to the international conversation.

Boyko said there are two sides to every story when talking about the impeachment process.

鈥淚鈥檓 trying to look at it from the perspective that there鈥檚 going to be a clash between the Republicans and Democrats because of the impeachment trial, and I don鈥檛 want it to impose any hardships upon policies that Democrats are trying to create simply because this process is starting,鈥� Boyko said.

Ukrainian-born Boyko believes international news coverage should have focused on Ukraine鈥檚 election rather than the phone call. During the time of Trump鈥檚 phone call with Zelensky, the Ukrainian leader had just been elected as president.听

Thomas Kenna, an international studies major and senior at AU, said he follows the inquiry news coverage closely, but can鈥檛 take a stance without more evidence.

Kenna said it would have been better if Pelosi waited for the transcripts of the phone call to be released, as Republicans suggested. The five-page rough transcript of Trump鈥檚 conversation with Zelensky came a day after Pelosi鈥檚 announcement.听

鈥淚 totally agree that these are valid allegations to look into if the press reports were true and corroborated,鈥� Kenna said.

Kenna added Pelosi鈥檚 decision to launch the inquiry before seeing the transcript from Trump鈥檚 call with Zelensky makes the efforts seem non-partisan.听

鈥淭here is mainstream media, partisan media and conservative media with different spins of the impeachment,鈥� Kenna said about media coverage. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 think this is the hill we want to die on.鈥�

Other students say they are confident President Trump鈥檚 actions warrant an impeachment inquiry. They aren鈥檛 confident the inquiry will be more than a political statement by members of the House of Representatives.

George Washington graduate student, Matilda Epstein, says she is 鈥渟ymbolically on board鈥� with the impeachment inquiry, but she wants to wait and see.

鈥淧residents have been impeached for less, yet this President has stayed in office, so I鈥檓 not fully optimistic change will actually come when he wasn鈥檛 impeached for other offenses he鈥檚 made,鈥� Epstein said.

A few students echoed that lack of optimism, like Tiffany Wilson, a student of the University of the District of Columbia.听

鈥淚 think it does no use to impeach Trump if the rest of the cabinet isn鈥檛 going too,鈥� Wilson said. 鈥淚鈥檓 worried all of the attention this is bringing will make people forget about other important issues like the wall at the [U.S.-Mexico] border.鈥�

Brooke Patterson is a George Washington University student studying public health policy and said she鈥檚 heard discussions on campus that make her proceed with caution. She said impeachment has been used in the past as a threat.听

鈥淧eople seem excited, but I am hesitantly optimistic,鈥� Patterson said. 鈥淟ike people talked about impeaching Obama but that never happened.鈥�

Despite skepticism, some students say they are hopeful this inquiry will result in President Trump鈥檚 removal and greater change for America going forward.听

Kyilah Terry, a graduate student at Georgetown University, said her 鈥渂est-case scenario鈥� is the president being impeached and found guilty by the Senate, something she said has been 鈥渁 long time coming.鈥�

Mia Graves, another UDC student, said she feels optimistic that justice will be served.

听鈥淚鈥檓 pro-impeachment personally. Time has been up,鈥� said Graves.

For now, students look forward to more discussion surrounding the impeachment inquiry.听

鈥淒.C. is a place where politics is everywhere and in conversations with whoever you talk to, so I鈥檓 sure we will hear more,鈥� Terry said.