Section: US & Canada
Adam Schiff blocks impeachment witness from identifying intelligence official he discussed Ukraine call with
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) prevented impeachment inquiry witness Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman from disclosing the intelligence official with whom he discussed President Donald Trump’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky, citing a need to protect the anonymous whistleblower.While...
The Trump Presidency Is in Free Fall
That old sinking feeling is back.There have occasionally been stretches of time that are good for the Trump administration. There have more often been stretches that are bad, though there is a baseline of chaos that has come to feel almost normal. And occasionally, there have been truly hellacious stretches: May 2017, when Donald Trump fired...
Ukraine Pol: I Was Joking When I Asked Vindman To Be Our Defense Minister
During impeachment hearings on Tuesday morning, the lead Republican counsel pressed Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman on an offer he’d received to take the position of defense minister in Kiev. The line of questioning seemed designed to raise doubts about Vindman’s allegiance to the U.S. right as he was testifying about his concerns over...
U.S. National Security Official Tells Impeachment Hearing Ukraine Offered Him Defense Minister Position
The U.S. National Security Council’s expert for Ukraine has told a Democratic-led House impeachment hearing he was offered the position of Ukraine’s defense minister three times, a revelation that Republicans could seize on to cast doubt about his testimony. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Trump Manages To Keep Himself From Attacking Impeachment Witnesses
President Donald Trump refrained from levying his usual attacks on Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and other witnesses in the House impeachment investigation on Tuesday. Trump, who has baselessly accused Vindman of being a “Never Trumper,” had a more muted response to the lieutenant colonel’s public testimony that was underway. “I watched him...
MSNBC Host: GOP Hinting at Vindman Dual Loyalty ‘Perhaps Inspired’ by Fox News
MSNBC host at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here …read more Source:: The Daily...
President Trump Has Found His Plumbers
Last week’s Republican rallying cry on impeachment was “Hearsay!” By this morning, the focus had turned back to the whistle-blower who started it all.The consensus GOP retort to the first three public witnesses in the House impeachment inquiry—Ambassadors William Taylor and Marie Yovanovich, and George Kent, a deputy secretary of state—was...
The Key Moments So Far In Marathon Day In The Impeachment Inquiry
By Tuesday evening, a total of four witnesses will have marched onto Capitol Hill to testify as part of the impeachment inquiry. The first two, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a Ukraine specialist on the National Security Council, and Jennifer Williams, a foreign policy aide to Vice President Mike Pence, had listened in on the July 25 call between...
Watchdog firm finds another troubling conflict of interest in Hunter Biden’s post at Burisma
Hunter Biden was paid both as member of the governing board and as a consultant to company management in his post at Burisma Holdings, an arrangement that is prohibited in the United States, an independent research firm reported Tuesday. Biden also received more than 12 times the comparable pay for board members at similarly sized companies. The...
READ: Impeachment Witnesses’ Opening Statements For Tuesday’s Hearings
The House Intelligence Committee is hearing from four more witnesses on Tuesday, including Ukraine specialist Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and former National Security Council official Tim Morrison.(Image credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images) …read more Source::...
