Section: US & Canada
Watch: GOP Rep. Yells At CNN Reporter When Asked About Bill Taylor’s Testimony
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) erupted on Wednesday morning when CNN reporter Manu Raju tried to talk to him about acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor’s bombshell testimony in the House impeachment investigation. Raju told CNN anchor Kate Balduan about his encounter with Brooks after the GOP congressman and dozens of other House...
Giuliani Associates Parnas And Fruman Plead Not Guilty, Raise Executive Privilege Concerns
NEW YORK — Two of the key players in Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to dig up dirt on Trump’s enemies pleaded not guilty in Manhattan Federal Court Wednesday — and embraced the President and his approach to dealing with legal issues. In their first appearance in court, an attorney for Parnas told a federal judge that their case may involve...
Top Senate Republican Calls Impression Of Taylor Testimony ‘Not Good’
John Thune, the second-highest ranked Republican in the Senate, said Wednesday that the impression coming from top Ukraine diplomat Bill Taylor’s testimony is “not a good one.” “The picture coming out of it, based on the reporting that we’ve seen, I would say is not a good one,” he said to assembled reporters, per CNN. “But I would...
Separatists’ Prison Sentence For Ukrainian Journalist Aseyev Sparks Outrage
Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have sentenced journalist Stanislav Aseyev, an RFE/RL contributor, to 15 years in prison on charges of espionage. Aseyev has already been held since 2017, when he was captured while reporting on the separatist conflict. Rights defenders and press freedom groups are calling his imprisonment...
Impeachment Just Became Inevitable
Ambassador William Taylor’s testimony to House investigators on Tuesday didn’t answer every question about the Ukraine scandal, but it answered the big one: Will President Donald Trump be impeached?Impeachment is now effectively inevitable. Taylor’s testimony fleshed out the biggest open questions, including whether there was a...
Pentagon official overseeing Ukraine testifies in impeachment inquiry
Cooper is expected to face questions about the Trump administration’s decision to temporarily withhold military assistance to Ukraine over the summer. …read more Source::...
The Weapons America Is Leaving Behind in Syria
Less than a week after President Donald Trump formally ordered the U.S. military to withdraw the majority of its forces from Syria, the Pentagon carried out an unusual mission in the northeastern part of the country. A pair of F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets delivered a precision airstrike, not to protect a joint U.S.-Turkish patrol on the border...
Ukraine just threw a huge wrench into Trump’s key defense denying a quid pro quo
Ukrainian officials knew in early August that President Trump had frozen military aid — all while pushing for politically motivated investigations. …read more Source:: Business...
Sean Duffy Wrecked by Republican CNN Colleague: ‘My Nose Is Not a Heat-Seeking Missile’ for Trump’s ‘Backside’
What happens when former Republican congressmen-turned-CNN contributors stop being polite, and start getting real?During a tense and heated clash on Wednesday morning, CNN political commentators at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here …read more Source:: The Daily...
Biden Apologizes For Calling Clinton Impeachment A ‘Partisan Lynching’
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden apologized on Tuesday night for referring to the impeachment proceedings against former President Bill Clinton as “partisan lynching” in 1998. “This wasn’t the right word to use and I’m sorry about that,” Biden tweeted. “Trump on the other hand chose his words deliberately today in his use...
