Section: US & Canada
Team Trump Trips Over GOP Questions About Facts Of The Ukraine Gambit
Through eight hours of senator questions Wednesday, President Trump’s legal team stumbled the most when facing questions about the underlying facts of the case against the President — including questions posed by GOP senators. Twice, Trump’s lawyers struggled to distinguish how the President’s obsession with investigating Joe...
Biden under pressure to prove he can thwart new GOP attacks
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — With five days until the Iowa caucuses, Joe Biden is fending off a new onslaught of GOP attacks over his son’s business overseas and facing piling pressure to show Democratic voters he can handle the incoming. As Republicans amplified their allegations against the former vice-president, accusing him of nepotism and worse...
Pompeo Interview Dispute with NPR Sends Conflicting Message on Press Freedom
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s contentious interview with an American news broadcaster, and apparent retaliation after, is “not what a democracy should be doing,” a member of a press freedom advocacy organization said Wednesday.Last week, Pompeo abruptly ended an interview with National Public Radio reporter Mary Louise Kelly when...
Alan Dershowitz to Senators: L’Etat, C’est Trump
For the Senate’s first day of questioning on Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s legal team tapped Patrick Philbin to answer most of the questions. Philbin, a deputy White House counsel, largely gave concise and sober answers to the senators’ queries. It was a refreshing change from the likes of Jay Sekulow, who addresses the...
Trump Lawyers Say Pressuring Ukraine, Even If True, ‘Cannot Be Impeachable’
U.S. President Donald Trump’s legal team argued that even if he did attempt to trade military aid to Ukraine in exchange for political favors, it was not grounds for his impeachment and removal from office. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Breaking: After meeting with centrist Republican, Mitch McConnell has enough votes to block witnesses in impeachment trial
Republicans believe they now have the votes in order to block Democrats’ demands to bring new witnesses in the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump in the US Senate. The news came after a meeting between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and centrist Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Democrats were hoping...
Rival campaigns say Ukraine hits are a warning to Biden
Analysis: In the final days before the Iowa caucuses, Democratic hopefuls trying to take advantage of the former vice president’s troubles are carefully walking a tightrope. …read more Source::...
Trial highlights: Senators’ questions launch pointed debate
WASHINGTON — Senators finally were allowed to speak at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, if only to announce written inquiries that led to pointed, back-and-forth debate Wednesday as Trump’s legal team and House Democratic prosecutors pressed their respective cases. Throughout, the urgent question of whether former national...
Trump Administration Hits Russian Railway With Sanctions Over Passenger Service to Crimea
(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a Moscow-based private railway company that last month opened passenger service between Russia and Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014. The sanctions target Grand Service Express, its CEO and seven people who were slapped with European Union sanctions...
Asked and answered? Senators have their say in Trump trial
WASHINGTON — At last during the impeachment trial, they got to do what comes naturally in their native habitat: speak on the Senate floor. But when senators engaged in a bit of their beloved talk, the result was something between a political debate and a low-budget reality show. That’s in part because they mostly asked for answers about the...
