Section: US & Canada
Intel Report Shows Nunes In Touch With Giuliani During Key Parts Of Ukraine Scheme
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) just found himself more deeply entrenched in the impeachment inquiry. House Intelligence Committee Democrats’ report surfaced a litany of new phone records Tuesday afternoon, revealing in part that ranking member Nunes was in communication with Rudy Giuliani during key aspects of his Ukraine pressure campaign. In...
We Were ‘Required By Law’ To Turn Over Call Records To Congress, AT&T Says
Phone records provided by AT&T to the House impeachment inquiry provided some of the most concrete evidence yet of the behind-the-scenes machinery that fueled President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine. The company said Tuesday that it was “required by law” to provide the records. Dozens of footnotes in the inquiry’s...
Democrat Report: It’s Obvious – and Impeachable – That Trump Extorted Ukraine
REUTERSDemocrats on the House intelligence committee concluded that President Trump was “the author of his own impeachment inquiry” by withholding critical political and military support from Ukraine until President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed to announce damaging investigations into Trump’s domestic political enemies. As widely expected, the...
Inquiry Can’t Penetrate Trump Firewall Around His Order Freezing Ukraine Aid
Even as dozens of government officials dished publicly on President Trump’s campaign to extort Ukraine, impeachment investigators could not penetrate one key inner circle: people who were there when Trump ordered that $391 million in military aid be frozen. In fact, as a report released by the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday shows,...
Schiff Says Still Investigating Whether Pressure Campaign Predated Zelensky
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said shortly after the release of the report into President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign that his committee is still investigating whether the situation predated Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Did this scheme begin far earlier than we first understood?” Schiff asked. “Was...
The House GOP Impeachment Report In Brief: Democrats Are Bad, Trump Is Good
House Republicans on Monday evening released their impeachment report, dismissing allegations against President Donald Trump as unsubstantiated and politically motivated. “The Democrats’ impeachment inquiry is not the organic outgrowth of serious misconduct; it is an orchestrated campaign to upend our political system,” the...
Impeachment Investigators Got Rudy Giuliani’s Phone Records—And They’re Quite Revealing
Rudy Giuliani and one of his indicted Ukrainian associates exchanged a flurry of phone calls and text messages with Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the top Republican on Congress’ impeachment investigation panel, amid a Giuliani-led effort to dig up dirt on President Donald Trump’s political opponents in Ukraine.The House Intelligence...
Tucker Carlson: U.S. should back Russia over Ukraine
Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Monday that the U.S. “should probably take the side of Russia,” coming to the defense of the country’s autocratic leader and condemning other American broadcasters for doing the opposite. The conservative commentator and host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” said during the latest episode...
What We Learned From The Phone Records Obtained In The Impeachment Probe
The House committees leading the impeachment inquiry revealed new details Tuesday about President Trump and his allies’ Ukraine pressure campaign — details that came in the form of phone records obtained by the House. The phone records suggest Rudy Giuliani was in contact with the White House and with officials elsewhere in the...
It’s Not Us—It’s Him
Washington is a partisan and notoriously navel-gazing place. Diplomats, academics, and intellectuals often blame foreign policy failures on Presidents of the opposite party rather than on deliberate decisions by American adversaries. As hundreds of thousands of Kurds fled Turkish forces moving into Syria, and Trump’s domestic critics moved...
