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White House officials to kick off big Trump impeachment week
WASHINGTON D.C. — Two top national security aides who listened to President Donald Trump’s call with Ukraine are preparing to testify in the impeachment hearings, launching a week of back-to-back sessions as Americans hear from those closest to the White House. WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 07: Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, director for European...
Pelosi invites Trump to testify as new witnesses prepare
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invited President Donald Trump to testify in front of investigators in the House impeachment inquiry ahead of a week that will see several key witnesses appear publicly. Pushing back against accusations from the Republican president that the process has been stacked against him, Pelosi said...
Schiff calls out Mulvaney for not complying with subpoena to testify
House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff on Saturday again called on White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and others to comply with congressional subpoenas and testify before Congress in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Schiff said in a statement that Mulvaney “not only has refused to testify, but actively worked to...
Impeachment testimony comes from White House budget official
WASHINGTON — House impeachment investigators met in private Saturday with a White House budget official as the historic inquiry produces new testimony offering direct insight of President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine. After a week of dramatic public hearings, investigators heard late Friday in closed session from State Department...
White House releases rough transcript of Trump’s first Ukraine call with Zelensky
WASHINGTON D.C. — The White House has released on Friday a transcript of President Donald Trump’s first phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart. The call, which occurred on April 21, came just after Volodymyr Zelensky was elected president. It doesn’t contain any mentions of the Bidens or the 2016 election, as a later July call did....
Ousted ambassador to testify in Trump impeachment probe
WASHINGTON D.C. — The House will hear from a singular witness Friday in the Trump impeachment hearings: Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who was targeted by the president’s allies in a “smear” campaign now central to the inquiry. The career diplomat, who served both Republican and Democratic presidents, is expected...
Trump says impeachment probe has been ‘very hard’ on his family
BOSSIER CITY, La. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that the impeachment probe has been “very hard” on his family, even as he tried to flex his political muscle to flip the governor’s mansion in deep-red Louisiana. Speaking in friendly territory in a state he carried in 2016 by 20 percentage points, Trump lashed out at Democratic...
Trump wants Supreme Court to block subpoena for his taxes
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to block a subpoena for his tax returns, in a test of the president’s ability to defy investigations. The filing Thursday sets the stage for a high court showdown over the tax returns Trump has refused to release, unlike every other modern president. The justices also...
Impeachment hearings go live on TV with the first witnesses
WASHINGTON D.C. — The closed doors of the Trump impeachment investigation are swinging wide open. When the gavel strikes at the start of the House hearing on Wednesday morning, America and the rest of the world will have the chance to see and hear for themselves for the first time about President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine and...
Five things to watch for the first public impeachment hearing
The impeachment inquiry is going public, a pivotal step for House Democrats as they try to make their case to the country that President Donald Trump should be the third president in US history to be impeached. By Jeremy Herb, CNN Seven weeks after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the impeachment inquiry, her party’s members are...
