Section: US & Canada
Full NBC exclusive: Warren calls Trump-Ukraine call ‘the smoking gun’
Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., talks exclusively with NBC News’ Ali Vitali about Democrats moving forward on impeachment, the White House summary of Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president, and why she doesn’t think impeachment is necessarily “DOA” in the Senate. …read more Source::...
Reminiscing Over His Pageant Days, President Trump Highlighted a Time Miss Ukraine Won the Miss Universe Title. Except a Miss Ukraine Never Has
(WASHINGTON) — And the crown goes to … not Miss Ukraine. President Donald Trump was recalling his days as the owner of the Miss Universe pageant Wednesday as he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made remarks before their private meeting. “It’s a great thing,” he said of his pageant days. “And we had a winner from Ukraine.” But a...
Former Ukraine prosecutor says Hunter Biden ‘did not violate anything’
Former prosecutor general Yuri Lutsenko also said no U.S. law enforcement officials came to Ukraine to help with corruption probes. …read more Source:: The Washington...
A Shared Text, but No Shared Reality
Did President Trump commit an offense that the Framers would regard as impeachable in his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky?A non-verbatim memo describing the call has been available since yesterday. But a common text has done little to create consensus. Indeed, no question is more hotly contested in Washington. And rival...
The Mess Trump Has Made in Ukraine
In the wake of his now-infamous July phone call with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, it’s not surprising that President Donald Trump has received the lion’s share of American analysis, especially after his actions have now triggered an impeachment process. But there hasn’t been very much analysis of Zelenskiy, nor...
Acting DNI Didn’t Think Whistle Blower Complaint Was Election Security Issue
The acting director of national intelligence didn’t consider the whistleblower’s complaint that’s led to an impeachment inquiry to be an election security matter — but rather one concerning “a conversation by the President with another foreign leader.” The complaint largely focuses on events surrounding a July 25 call in which...
Whistleblower complaint says White House officials acted to ‘lock down’ record of Trump-Ukraine call
A whistleblower’s complaint about President Donald Trump, made public on Thursday, says White House officials were so concerned about what the president said in a July call with Ukraine’s new leader that they intervened to “lock down” the transcript of the conversation. The whistleblower, whose name and gender has not been released,...
John Yoo Warns That Impeachment Would Undermine Presidential Power. That’s the Point.
The Berkeley law professor John Yoo warns that impeaching Donald Trump over his alleged solicitation of re-election assistance from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy could undermine presidential powers to conduct foreign policy and protect national security. Given Yoo’s expansive understanding of those powers, that prospect may count...
Manafort Is the Key
I’ve been waiting for this to come up. According to Murray Waas writing in the New York Review of Books, Rudy’s excellent Ukraine adventure began not as an effort to damage Joe Biden but to discredit the case against Paul Manafort and lay the groundwork for a pardon. It will take a while to suss out the precise order of events and...
Harris on whistleblower complaint: ‘This is a cover-up’
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), a Democratic presidential candidate, said Thursday the whistleblower complaint over President Trump’s alleged misconduct in his communications with Ukraine is “a cover-up.” … …read more Source:: The...
