Section: US & Canada
‘What world do you guys live in?’ — Jake Tapper to top Democrat after Nancy Pelosi’s stalling gambit fails
CNN’s Jake Tapper pressured Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell (Calif.) on the Democrats’ impeachment stalling gambit failing after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced that Republicans had enough votes to set their own trial rules. “With all due respect, this leverage gambit does not seem to have worked!”...
McConnell says he has the votes to set impeachment trial rules without Democratic support
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he has the votes to set the ground rules of the impeachment trial for President Donald Trump — without Democrats’ support. McConnell first made the remarks during a closed-door lunch with his fellow Republican senators on Capitol Hill, an official in the room told CNN, before...
Biden Stands by His Foreign Policy Resume as He Slams Trump
Rising tensions between Washington and Tehran are testing whether Joe Biden can capitalize on his decades of foreign policy experience as he seeks to challenge a president he derides as “dangerous” and “erratic.”Biden is expected to deliver lengthy remarks Tuesday in New York about President Donald Trump’s decision to approve an airstrike...
The Senate Republicans Who Could Still Turn Against Trump
The great Senate anti-climax will soon be upon us, if you haven’t heard—an impeachment trial that will acquit President Donald Trump just as predictably as the Democratic-led House voted to charge him last month.It’s an outcome so widely assumed that, given Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s delay in formally sending articles of impeachment...
All Eyes On Pelosi For Impeachment’s Next Steps
As the House returns to Washington Tuesday, a question lingers over the Capitol: when will Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) send the impeachment articles over to the Senate? When she left Washington before the holiday recess, having just presided over the historic impeachment vote adopting the articles, Pelosi played coy about her next steps. She said...
Sen. Cruz: Impeachment Is a ‘1-Sided Show Trial,’ ‘Not Driven by Facts’
President Donald Trump is only the third president to be impeached because impeachment is a rarely used tool that the Founders intended to be a serious and fair process. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, says he is concerned that Trump hasn’t gotten the due process he deserves. I spoke with him about the impeachment process and how it will likely...
Biden stands by his foreign policy resumé as he slams Trump
Rising tensions between Washington and Tehran are testing whether Joe Biden can capitalize on his decades of foreign policy experience as he seeks to challenge a president he derides as “dangerous” and “erratic.” Biden is expected to deliver lengthy remarks Tuesday in New York about President Donald Trump’s decision to approve an airstrike...
Hunter Biden linked to identity theft of his dead brother by investigator in paternity suit
Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden, was linked in court documents with alleged identity theft of his deceased brother Beau Biden. The claims were made by a private investigator acting as a third-party intervener in the paternity lawsuit against Hunter Biden. He fathered a child with an exotic dancer he met in...
Biden’s foreign policy prowess tested by Iran tensions
Rising tensions between Washington and Tehran are testing whether Joe Biden can capitalize on his decades of foreign policy experience as he seeks to challenge a president he derides as “dangerous” and “erratic.” Biden is expected to deliver lengthy remarks Tuesday about President Donald Trump’s decision to approve an airstrike that killed...
Republican Businesswoman and Political Newcomer Kelly Loeffler Has Been Sworn in as Georgia’s New Senator
(WASHINGTON) — Wealthy Republican businesswoman Kelly Loeffler was sworn in Monday as the newest senator from Georgia, a political newcomer who takes office amid a presidential impeachment, swirling tensions with Iran and at the dawn of what looms as a bruising national election. Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp appointed Loeffler to the vacant seat...
