Section: US & Canada
Biden Urges Trump To Release Tax Returns If He’s So Concerned About Corruption
Democratic frontrunner and former Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t seem as concerned with the Ukraine scandal as he is with President Trump needing to release his tax returns. During an interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes” Sunday night, Norah O’Donnell asked Biden if there was anything he wanted to say to the President. Biden repeated...
Top Ex-Bolton Aide Uses Courts To At Least Temporarily Delay Testifying
Charles Kupperman, who worked as deputy national security adviser until September and currently shares a lawyer with former National security Adviser John Bolton, will not testify Monday as originally planned. He is instead waiting on a judge to decide whether he has to comply with the House subpoena. Though it has seemed unlikely that Kupperman...
Trump Impeachment Inquiry: A Guide To Key People, Facts And Documents
House Democrats are investigating President Trump and whether his administration affected foreign policy for personal political gain. Here is what you need to know to understand the Ukraine affair.(Image credit: Ella Trujillo for NPR) …read more Source::...
How Trump Will Use Baghdadi for the Next Year
It was the cinematic moment Donald Trump had been craving at this perilous point in his presidency—and when it arrived, he made sure it didn’t go to waste. President Trump’s vivid—perhaps too vivid?—re-creation of the U.S. Special Forces raid that killed the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Saturday night is sure to become a...
Tom Perez’s No-Win Situation
There are days when Tom Perez feels the weight of 2020 collapsing in on him—the sense that the future of his party, the country, and the world all depend on him pulling off a victory next year.“If you have an impulse that you have to be liked by everyone, don’t take this job,” Perez told me as we drove around Ohio a couple of weeks ago, on...
Fresh EU-Russia-Ukraine Gas Talks To Take Place In Brussels As Winter Approaches
The ongoing Ukrainian-Russian geopolitical tussle once again enters the realm of energy as trilateral gas transit talks are set to resume in Brussels on October 28 between Moscow and Kyiv, with European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic mediating. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Biden: Kushner has no ‘credentials’ for White House post
Joe Biden called it “improper” for President Donald Trump for having his daughter and son-in-law hold positions in the White House, suggesting in a CBS interview Sunday that Jared Kushner is not qualified to weigh in on the complex affairs assigned by his father-in-law. That assessment, which the Democratic presidential hopeful...
Biden: Kushner has no ‘Credentials’ for White House Post
Joe Biden called it “improper” for President Donald Trump for having his daughter and son-in-law hold positions in the White House, suggesting in a CBS interview Sunday that Jared Kushner is not qualified to weigh in on the complex affairs assigned by his father-in-law.That assessment, which the Democratic presidential hopeful offered in a...
Gowdy: Trump demand for Ukraine help “can’t be” impeachable
“Are we going to remove a President from office if he conditioned aid on figuring out who tried to interfere in our 2016 election?” Gowdy said on “Face the Nation” Sunday …read more Source::...
Pence Won’t Say If He Knew Of Trump’s Deal With Ukraine Described By Diplomats
Vice President Mike Pence refused to say on Sunday whether he knew of the deal between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that top diplomats had described in their testimonies in the House impeachment investigation. CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan asked Pence no less than four times if he was aware that, according...
