Section: US & Canada
Amid U.S. Impeachment Inquiry, Ukraine Left Feeling ‘Abandoned’
Ukraine is at the center of today’s east-west geopolitical battle, but it’s feeling increasingly alone and abandoned by its U.S. backers amid the impeachment drama unfolding in Washington. The U.S. ambassador — who was pushed out earlier this year and testified Friday in Congress — hasn’t been replaced. Neither has the...
6 Key Moments From Day 2 of the Public Impeachment Hearings
The Obama administration instructed her on how to respond to lawmakers’ questions about the lucrative employment of Vice President Joe Biden’s son by an energy company in Ukraine, the ousted ambassador to the former Soviet republic testified Friday. Marie Yovanovitch, who was recalled and reassigned six months ago, also said she felt...
Yovanovitch testimony shows US foreign policy is ‘in shambles,’ former diplomat says
In the second day of televised impeachment hearings, one former diplomat says it’s been distressing to watch the testimony of Marie Yovanovitch, who was abruptly removed from her post as US ambassador to Ukraine earlier this year. …read more Source:: Public Radio...
Five takeaways from ex-ambassador’s dramatic testimony
Marie Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine, told House impeachment investigators Friday that President Trump’s side-channel foreign policy in Kyiv “knee-capped” U.S. anti-corruption efforts, deflated morale at th… …read more Source:: The...
Trump Fights Back as Democrats Home In on Impeachment
As Marie Yovanovitch took the witness stand during impeachment inquiry hearings on Friday, President Donald Trump took to Twitter, launching an attack on the ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.”Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad,” Trump tweeted. “She started off in Somalia, how did that go?”Trump then falsely...
Glenn Beck: Marie Yovanovitch committed ‘perjury’ when she LIED under oath about ‘do not prosecute list’
During Friday’s Democrat-led impeachment inquiry hearing, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified under oath that she did not give former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko a “do not prosecute list” in 2017. Yovanovitch also doubled-down on left-wing disinformation saying that Lutsenko...
The Atlantic Politics Daily: This Article Is About Articles of Impeachment
It’s Friday, November 15. In today’s newsletter: Roger Stone, articles of impeachment, more on the Green New Deal, and questioning age limits for presidential candidates.*” TODAY IN POLITICS »(WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY)This article is about articles of impeachmentOn Friday, it was Marie Yovanovitch’s turn to face congressional...
Amid cheers and a tweet, ‘Masha’ has her impeachment moment
WASHINGTON (AP) – The box of white tissues stood by, two seats to Maria Yovanovitch’s right, as she told the world about being “shocked, appalled, devastated” that the president had badmouthed her after firing her as ambassador to Ukraine. But Yovanovitch stayed a picture of soft-spoken reserve, even as her … …read more...
Diplomat says he overheard Trump call about ‘investigations’
State Department official David Holmes told impeachment investigators Friday that he overheard a conversation with President Donald Trump asking a diplomat about “investigations” in Ukraine, according those familiar with Holmes’ … Click to Continue » …read more Source:: Miami...
State Dept. Aide Says He Overheard Sondland Tell Trump Ukraine President Would Do ‘Anything’
Yara Nardi/ReutersU.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland was overheard telling President Trump that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was willing to do “anything” Trump asked him to do, including “the investigation,” according to the opening statement of a new witness in the impeachment inquiry against Trump.David Holmes, a...
