Section: US & Canada
Column: Mick Mulvaney, please call your office
Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, has yet to explain why he ordered a freeze in nearly $400 million in U.S. military aid to Ukraine for three months this summer. That key question hangs over the House impeachment hearings. …read more Source:: Los Angeles...
Analysts See Pitfalls for Ukraine in Coming Peace Talks
Ukrainian officials are warily watching the U.S. impeachment inquiry as they prepare for a crucial four-way negotiation with Russia, France and Germany next month.The meeting of the so-called Normandy Contact Group, set for Dec. 9 in Paris, is aimed at easing the conflict in the Donbas area of eastern Ukraine between government forces and...
Dem Leader Says It’s ‘Quite Likely’ Nunes Will Be Investigated For Potential Ethics Violation
House Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith (D-WA) said on Saturday that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) faces an ethics investigation for allegedly working with Lev Parnas, one of Rudy Giuliani’s indicted associates. During an interview on “AM Joy,” MSNBC host Joy Ann Reid asked Smith about a potential ethics investigation into Nunes after...
State Department Files Show Giuliani, Pompeo Contact Before Ukraine Ambassador’s Exit
The talks took place near the time Giuliani and two of his associates were trying to push U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch out of her post in Kyiv. She was recalled from her post in May.(Image credit: Markus Schreiber/AP) …read more Source::...
New documents show contacts between Giuliani and Pompeo
Newly released documents show Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was in contact with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the months before the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was abruptly recalled. …read more Source:: CTV...
‘I have insurance’: Giuliani warns Trump to not throw him ‘under the bus’ over Ukraine scandal during Fox News interview
On Fox News Saturday, Rudy Giuliani sat for an interview with Ed Henry, and appeared to suggest that President Donald Trump wouldn’t dare let him go down for the Ukraine scheme, because Giuliani could take him down with him. “I’ve seen things written like ‘He is going to throw me under the bus,’” said Giuliani. “When they say...
Watchdog releases State Dept. docs on Giuliani, Pompeo contacts on Ukraine
A watchdog has released nearly 100 pages of court-ordered documents showing communications between President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Ukraine. …read more Source:: United Press...
Pompeo Had Several Calls With Giuliani Before Yovanovitch’s Abrupt Ouster, Docs Confirm
Newly released documents from the State Department reveal several calls between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani approximately a month before former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was suddenly removed from her post. American Oversight, a self-described “non-partisan” watchdog organization dedicated to...
White House helped arrange call between Giuliani and Pompeo after handover of Biden allegations
The White House helped arrange a phone call between Rudy Giuliani and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo the day after the President’s personal lawyer handed over materials with unproven claims about former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, according to documents released by the State Department late Friday night. The documents show...
Devin Nunes plans to sue CNN, Daily Beast over Vienna stories
Rep. Devin Nunes said on Saturday he plans to sue CNN and the Daily Beast for stories that accused him of meeting with a former Ukraine prosecutor in a hunt for dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden. Mr. Nunes called “demonstrably false” an assertion from CNN’s source, an attorney … …read more Source:: The...
