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    Schiff: ‘Worst Lawyer’ Giuliani ‘Continues To Make The Case’ For Impeachment
    Dec17

    Schiff: ‘Worst Lawyer’ Giuliani ‘Continues To Make The Case’ For Impeachment

    House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) found time to poke fun at Rudy Giuliani as the House inches closer to impeaching President Trump. During an appearance on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” Monday night, Schiff tore into Giuliani by calling the President’s personal lawyer “perhaps the worst lawyer that anyone could have” after Meyers...

    Ukrainian Energy Firm Sues Over Drilling Contract Given To Rick Perry Pals
    Dec17

    Ukrainian Energy Firm Sues Over Drilling Contract Given To Rick Perry Pals

    The Ukrainian energy firm Naftogaz is suing the government of Ukraine over a contract that it says was improperly awarded to a friend and donor of U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry. The contract went to an American firm co-owned by Michael Bleyzer, a longtime friend of Perry’s who donated $30,000 to Perry’s Texas gubernatorial campaign...

    Top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine to leave post at end of year
    Dec17

    Top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine to leave post at end of year

    Bill Taylor testified at the House Intelligence Committee’s inquiry into President Donald Trump’s hold on military aid to Ukraine. …read more Source::...

    McConnell Shoots Down Schumer’s Push For Key Witnesses At Senate Impeachment Trial
    Dec17

    McConnell Shoots Down Schumer’s Push For Key Witnesses At Senate Impeachment Trial

    On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) threw cold water on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) request to subpoena crucial witnesses for the Senate’s impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. “The Senate is meant to act as judge and jury to hear a trial, not to rerun the entire fact-finding...

    While Number of Journalists Killed Falls, More Behind Bars in 2019, RSF Says
    Dec17

    While Number of Journalists Killed Falls, More Behind Bars in 2019, RSF Says

    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says journalism remains a “dangerous profession,” with 49 journalists killed this year, 389 currently imprisoned, and 57 others being held hostage.According to the Paris-based media freedom watchdog’s annual worldwide roundup of deadly violence and abusive treatment against journalists, released...

    Inside the Republican Case Against Impeachment
    Dec17

    Inside the Republican Case Against Impeachment

    President Donald Trump “betrayed the nation by abusing his high office,” the House Judiciary Committee declared in a 658-page impeachment report released yesterday.As Democrats tell it, “President Trump solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, in the 2020 presidential election.” He did so by asking Ukraine to announce...

    Giuliani: Trump ‘Relied On’ His Claims About US Diplomat
    Dec17

    Giuliani: Trump ‘Relied On’ His Claims About US Diplomat

    Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, says he provided the president with information that the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was impeding investigations that could benefit Trump politically. Within weeks, she was recalled from her post.In an interview with The New York Times, Giuliani portrayed himself as directly involved...

    ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’: McConnell, WH Privately At Odds Over Senate Trial
    Dec17

    ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’: McConnell, WH Privately At Odds Over Senate Trial

    President Trump has publicly and privately offered conflicting signals about what he wants out of a Senate impeachment trial, stating in public that he would be open to something short or long. In private, he has told aides he’d like the ability to call witnesses on his behalf, the Wall Street Journal reported. Senate Majority Leader Mitch...

    How the GOP Bamboozled The New York Times’ Politics Desk
    Dec17

    How the GOP Bamboozled The New York Times’ Politics Desk

    When it comes to impeachment, no one with a brain is disputing the facts of the case: Donald Trump pressured Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Joe Biden, using the president’s power over American foreign policy to target a political rival and influence the 2020 election. To suggest otherwise is to either knowingly obfuscate...

    Giuliani: Trump ‘relied on’ his claims about US diplomat
    Dec17

    Giuliani: Trump ‘relied on’ his claims about US diplomat

    President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani says he provided the president with information that the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was impeding investigations that could benefit Trump politically …read more Source:: The Boston...