Section: US & Canada
Rasputin Rudy: Impeachment Transcripts Show a Zealot Unbound
Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/GettyTo hear Ukraine envoy at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here …read more Source:: The Daily...
The Atlantic Politics Daily: Bellwethers
It’s Tuesday, November 5. We’re still combing through newly released testimonies from key characters in the Ukraine affair.In today’s newsletter: ¶ People. Gordon Sondland. ¶ Places. Arizona, Kentucky, Mississippi, Virginia. ¶ Things. Fossil fuels.*” TODAY IN POLITICS »(Mark Makela / Reuters)It’s Election Day in...
A ‘refreshed’ memory: Takeaways from Ukraine testimony
WASHINGTON (AP) – In transcripts of closed-door interviews released by impeachment investigators Tuesday, two State Department officials recount what they remember – and what they didn’t know at the time – about President Donald Trump’s demands that Ukraine conduct politically motivated investigations. Gordon...
‘Talk to Rudy’: Impeachment transcripts detail Giuliani’s outsized influence in Ukraine policy
According to an NBC News tally, the former NYC mayor was mentioned more than 430 times in testimony by Sondland and Volker. …read more Source::...
Five things to know about the Sondland, Volker transcripts
House Democrats released transcripts from depositions with two key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry on Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland and former special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker…. …read more Source:: The...
New testimony, transcripts, paint fuller picture of quid pro quo
Transcripts of more than 350 pages each from House interviews with US Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland and the Trump Administration’s special envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker were made public, as was new testimony from Sondland included “refreshed” recollections. …read more Source:: Public Radio...
Giuliani met Ukraine presidential candidate in 2018 to get Biden dirt, says ex-prosecutor
A claim by an ex-Ukrainian prosecutor also deepens questions about the role of ex-Rep. Bob Livingston in the Trump camp’s push to find dirt on the Bidens. …read more Source::...
Impeachment reversal: Diplomat now acknowledges quid pro quo
With that stunning reversal, diplomat Gordon Sondland handed House impeachment investigators another key piece of corroborating testimony Tuesday. He acknowledged what Democrats contend was a clear quid pro quo, pushed by U.S. President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, with Ukraine. …read more Source:: CTV...
Impeachment reversal: Diplomat now acknowledges quid pro quo
WASHINGTON — “I now do recall.” With that stunning reversal, diplomat Gordon Sondland handed House impeachment investigators another key piece of corroborating testimony Tuesday. He acknowledged what Democrats contend was a clear quid pro quo, pushed by President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, with Ukraine. Sondland, in an...
Graham: ‘I don’t know’ if quid pro quo is impeachable offense
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday said it was unclear to him whether it would be an impeachable offense if President Trump demanded a quid pro quo of Ukraine’s president.”I don’… …read more Source:: The...
