Section: US & Canada
Key Moments From Yovanovitch’s Testimony On Smear Campaign That Forced Her Out
Former Ambassador to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch took the stand Friday to tell the House Intelligence Committee about being shoved out of her posting after Rudy Giuliani and his cronies concocted a successful smear campaign against her. In a compelling and personal account, she expressed how it felt to lose her job and the confidence of the...
Yovanovitch Details How She Learned Of Giuliani’s Indicted Buds
The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv first began to hear of the campaign against Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch in November 2018, the ousted diplomat said on Friday. Yovanovitch told the House Intelligence Committee that she learned of “rumors from Ukrainians” about Rudy Giuliani’s campaign to have her removed around November and December, but that “it...
Rough transcript of first Trump-Zelenskiy call released
WASHINGTON (AP) – 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 …...
Fired Ukraine ambassador calls out ‘crisis’ in US diplomacy
WASHINGTON (AP) – The fired U.S. ambassador to Ukraine sounded an alarm Friday about the denigration of American diplomacy and the hollowing out of the State Department under President Donald Trump as she recounted how she became an early casualty of the behind-the-scenes negotiations that led to the impeachment inquiry. … …read...
Impeachment: Ex-diplomat Marie Yovanovitch ‘shocked’ at Trump’s Ukraine call
A dramatic moment occurred during the first part of Friday’s public impeachment hearing, when House investigators read a new tweet from President Donald Trump and posed it to his former ambassador to Ukraine. …read more Source:: United Press...
Trump Impeachment Not Justified by Evidence and Testimony Made Public So Far
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., hasn’t yet produced most of his witnesses in the public impeachment hearings regarding President Donald Trump. But if the State Department’s George Kent and acting Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor are representative of the testimony Democrats are relying on, future...
Ukraine Detains Top Islamic State Commander
Ukraine’s main security agency says it has arrested a key figure in the Islamic State (IS) extremist group. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Trump himself is clearly not satisfied with only one article of impeachment’
Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) didn’t hold back on Friday, taking a swipe at President Trump on Twitter after he tweeted about former U.S Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and her career’s work as a diplomati… …read more Source:: The...
Schiff Mansplains Committee Rules to GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik
House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) repeatedly interrupted congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) during Friday’s impeachment hearing. Ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes (R., Calif.) yielded his time to allow Stefanik to ask former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch questions, but Schiff interrupted her before...
The Latest: Yovanovitch rejects Trump’s 2016 Ukraine theory
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on President Donald Trump and House impeachment hearings (all times local): 1:20 p.m. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Maria Yovanovitch is rejecting the notion that Ukraine tried to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, as President Donald Trump has proposed. Trump has said that Ukraine …...
