Section: TPM (USA)
READ: House Intel Releases Parnas Docs For Trump Impeachment
House committees investigating President Trump will release documents provided by Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas to the Senate for its upcoming impeachment trial, the panels said in a Tuesday release. The panels will also provide the documents to House Republicans and the White House. House Democrats released some of the documents provided to...
Schumer Defends Pelosi’s Decision To Keep Impeachment Articles Close To The Chest
Shortly after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced Tuesday morning that the House will vote on an impeachment managers resolution Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) defended her decision to hold back the impeachment articles for three weeks. During an interview on ABC News Tuesday morning, Schumer argued that...
Giuliani Has Been Lobbying To Join Trump’s Impeachment Defense Team
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani is itching to join President Donald Trump’s anti-impeachment team ahead of the Senate impeachment trial, HuffPost and CNN reported on Monday night. An unnamed adviser told HuffPost that Giuliani has been “working Trump hard” in his efforts. Another adviser said that the lawyer has made it clear to Trump that he...
Trump Indicates He’ll Seek To Block Key Impeachment Witnesses’ Testimonies At Trial
President Donald Trump signaled in an interview aired Friday that he would seek to block key witnesses from testifying in the Senate’s impeachment trial, including former National Security Adviser John Bolton, former Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. Trump ordered the...
Iran Admits Military Mistakenly Shot Down Civilian Plane Outside Tehran
Iran acknowledged Saturday that its own military shot down a civilian plane early Wednesday morning, calling the incident a grave mistake. Ukraine Airlines flight 752, with 176 people on board, crashed into an open field after being hit by an Iranian missile operator. Iranians and Canadians made up the bulk of the passengers. Most on the plane...
This Week In Trump Investigations: Iran Strike Distracts From Impeachment
This week in impeachment A diversion? The fallout from President Trump’s decision to assassinate a top Iranian military official last week lingered in full force this week, capturing much of the media’s attention and nearly — but not entirely — sidelining developments on the impeachment front. The Trump administration has claimed it...
Report: Intel Agencies, FBI Examining Whether Russia Is Targeting Biden
The U.S. government is investigating whether Russia is targeting Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the run-up to the 2020 elections, Bloomberg reports. The probe reportedly focuses on whether Russia’s continuing U.S. disinformation efforts are aimed at damaging Biden’s candidacy. That investigation at least partly focuses...
Pelosi Sets Stage To Send Impeachment Case To Senate Next Week
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that the House will vote to appoint impeachment managers next week, setting the stage for the impeachment articles against President Trump to be sent to the Senate soon after. “I have asked Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to be prepared to bring to the Floor next week a resolution to appoint managers and...
Here’s What We Know About The Mystery Plane Crash In Iran That Claimed 176 Lives
A few minutes after 6 a.m. Tehran time Wednesday, Ukraine International Flight 752 took off from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport. Within 10 minutes, the plane had exploded in midair and crashed into a field, killing all 167 passengers and nine crew on board. Some experts have pointed to possible foul play, but details are still...
Senate Dems Haven’t Given Up Just Yet On Securing Impeachment Trial Witnesses
Senate Democrats may have lost an early battle with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to call witnesses for the upcoming Senate impeachment trial. But many Dems are refusing to concede the war over bringing in additional evidence into their proceedings, which will decide whether President Trump should be acquitted or removed from office for...
