Section: US & Canada
This Week: Impeachment Probe Enters Public Phase
The Week In Impeachment Public hearings: The House held its first two public hearings in the impeachment probe this week, with members grilling career diplomats about the highly unusual actions they witnessed from the Trump administration. On Wednesday, Ukraine diplomat Bill Taylor and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent testified...
Ambassador Yovanovitch admits she was prepped on Hunter Biden and Burisma by the Obama administration
During her public testimony in the impeachment inquiry Friday, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch admitted to being prepped on how to answer questions regarding Hunter Biden and his involvement with Burisma by the Obama administration before her Senate confirmation hearings.Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) pressed the issue during...
House Republicans Give Trump Cover On Tweets Attacking Yovanovitch
Just minutes after ousted Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch’s public testimony wrapped up, a number House Republicans defended President Trump’s Friday morning tweets attacking the career diplomat. As Yovanovitch’s testimony was underway Friday morning, Trump tweeted that “everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad” and...
Trump Resisted Sale of Javelins to Ukraine
Republicans are defending him amid his impeachment inquiry by saying he gave more military aid than his predecessor, but it came only after the reluctant president was convinced it would be good for U.S. business. …read more Source:: Foreign...
How Trump mistreated—and mistweeted—his former ambassador
“There’s no word that can describe our wonderful country,” said the new president-elect of Ukraine down the long-distance line, overlooking the word “corrupt.” This omission was understandable, given the excitement of talking to Donald Trump for the very first time. “Words cannot describe how nice, warm and wonderful our people are,”...
Rough Transcript of First Trump-Zelenskiy Call Released
President Donald Trump on Friday released the summary transcript of his April congratulatory call with Ukraine’s president-elect, the latest salvo in the White House effort to blunt Democratic allegations that Trump abused his power by pressuring a foreign leader to get involved in U.S. politics.The new account of Trump’s call with...
Audience applauds, GOP microphone turned off at end of Yovanovitch hearing
Audience members at Friday’s impeachment inquiry broke into applause after former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch concluded her testimony.Even as Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas) repeatedly asked to be reco… …read more Source:: The...
Six memorable moments from Ex-Ukraine ambassador Yovanovitch’s public testimony
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch on Friday became the third witness to testify publicly in the House’s impeachment inquiry into President Trump.She described her feelings about her removal from t… …read more Source:: The...
MSNBC’s McCaskill: Trump used ‘his fat thumbs’ to try to intimidate Yovanovitch
MSNBC analyst Claire McCaskill said President Trump used “his fat thumbs” to try to intimidate former Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch in real time on Twitter during an analysis of the impeachment hearings Friday afte… …read more Source:: The...
Yovanovitch: It’s been a ‘very, very difficult time’
Former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch said that it has been a difficult time for her personally amid attacks on her reputation throughout the impeachment inquiry process. …read more Source:: The...
