Section: US & Canada
Impeachment hearings takeaways: `Everyone was in the loop’
Gordon Sondland, President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the European Union, bolstered Democrats’ impeachment narrative Wednesday as he repeatedly talked of a “quid pro quo” involving Ukraine. He said “everyone was … Click to Continue » …read more Source:: Miami...
7 Key Moments From Gordon Sondland’s Testimony on Day 4 of Public Impeachment Hearings
Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, delivered an apparently mixed message Wednesday to lawmakers about what President Donald Trump wanted from Ukraine. In the fourth day of House Democrats’ public impeachment hearings, Sondland first testified that there was a “quid pro quo” in which Ukraine’s new president would...
Russia Arrests Soldier Suspected Of Spying For Ukraine
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on November 20 detained a military serviceman on suspicion of spying on behalf of Ukraine in the Rostov region. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
DNA test shows Hunter Biden is father of Arkansas woman’s baby, despite his previous denials
A DNA test has confirmed that Hunter Biden fathered a child with an Arkansas woman who is suing him for financial support, after months of Biden denying the allegations and asking that the suit be thrown out.What are the details?The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette first reported Wednesday that “DNA testing has established ‘with scientific...
Defense official says Ukraine asked about military aid hold
WASHINGTON (AP) – A Defense Department official is testifying that the Ukrainian embassy was asking questions of her staff about a hold on military aid as far back as July 25, the day President Donald Trump asked Ukraine’s president to investigate Democrats. Testifying in an evening impeachment hearing, Laura Cooper …...
Laura Cooper, impeachment witness, suggests Ukraine knew of security hold in July
Laura Cooper, the deputy assistant secretary of defense, told lawmakers Wednesday night Ukrainians may have been aware of the hold on security assistance during the July 25th Trump-Zelensky phone call that launched House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. In her opening statement Ms. Cooper, the DOD official overseeing Russian, Ukrainian and...
What’s Driving Apolitical Diplomats to Get Political
Battered by haphazard decisions and neglect, the State Department has seen a mass exodus of diplomats during the Trump administration. Now some former diplomats are so worried about what another Trump term would mean—further erosion of alliances, more loss of credibility with friends and foes alike—that they are for the first time taking their...
The Atlantic Politics Daily: ‘The Answer Is Yes.’
It’s Wednesday, November 20. In today’s newsletter: sorting through what Ambassador Gordon Sondland said. Plus, who will punch and who will be punched at tonight’s Democratic debates.*” TODAY IN POLITICS »(ANDREW HARNIK / AP)Ambassador Sondland didn’t disappoint, as a much-anticipated witness for the Democrats.1....
Gordon Sondland Tried To Have Fun While Being Scrutinized Over Ukraine Scheme
Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland swept into the hearing room on Wednesday to effectively demolish President Donald Trump’s claim there was no quid pro quo with Ukraine — and he did it with a smirk. In stark contrast with the other witnesses who had somberly testified in the House impeachment investigation, Sondland...
How Gordon Sondland Broke the Media’s Savior Complex
If Hollywood producers were to cast a foil to Donald Trump, they seemingly could not have done better than the witnesses who testified during the first three days of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings. There was George Kent in his three-piece suit and colorful bowtie and Alexander Vindman in his full military...
