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LIVEBLOG: Four Witnesses Testify In A Marathon Day Of Impeachment Hearings
On Tuesday, a whopping four witnesses are due to testify as part of the impeachment inquiry. They are Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a Ukraine specialist on the National Security Council; Jennifer Williams, a foreign policy aide to Vice President Mike Pence; Kurt Volker, former special envoy to Ukraine; and Tim Morrison, former National Security...
Republicans Will Attempt To Poke Holes In Vindman’s Credibility During Testimony
As conservative media, the President and some top Republicans have signaled in recent days, Republicans on the impeachment committees plan to try to poke holes in Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s credibility and patriotism during his public testimony Tuesday. According to the Washington Post, Republican lawmakers hope to paint Vindman has a...
Volker Plans To Distance Himself From The Other Amigos In His Testimony
Kurt Volker, former special envoy to Ukraine, plans to deemphasize his role in the Ukraine pressure campaign by claiming ignorance of it, and to insist that he didn’t realize hypothetical investigations into Burisma were actually investigations into the Bidens. Volker is one of the so-called “three amigos,” along with Ambassador to the EU...
READ: Interview Of Embassy Aide Who Heard Trump-Sondland Call
The House committees leading the impeachment inquiry on Monday released the testimony of the State Department official who claimed to overhear an explosive phone call between President Trump and the U.S. ambassador leading the Ukraine pressure campaign. David Holmes, who served in the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, said he overheard the phone call while...
READ: State Dept. Official Points To Pompeo In Yovanovitch Ouster
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke with Rudy Giuliani when deciding not to issue a statement in support of Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, according to testimony from Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale released Monday evening. Hale told the House Intelligence Committee in a Nov. 6 deposition that Pompeo ordered the State...
CNN: Trump Suggested Having Impeachment Witnesses Fired
President Donald Trump has reportedly floated firing administration officials who have testified in the House impeachment investigation into Trump’s Ukraine scheme. CNN reported on Monday night that Trump, ever fixated with loyalty, has suggested having Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a Pentagon official who currently serves on the National...
Sen. Ron Johnson Paints Key Impeachment Witness As Possibly Anti-Trump
Sen. Ron Johnson suggested on Monday that Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a National Security Council member who has provided crucial testimony in the House impeachment, could be biased against President Donald Trump. Johnson mentioned his suspicions in a letter to House Intelligence Committee members Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Jim Jordan (R-OH), who had...
Nunes Protégé Now At White House Sues Politico Over Impeachment Stories
A White House official sued Politico and one of its reporters Monday, claiming its coverage putting him near the center of the impeachment drama was defamatory. Kash Patel, a former lawyer for the Republicans’ side of the House Intelligence Committee who early this year joined the White House National Security Council, filed the suit in...
Pelosi Pushes Back On GOP’s Talking Point On Delay Of Ukraine Aid
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) sent a letter to her Democratic colleagues on Monday that addressed President Donald Trump and his allies’ argument that Trump did nothing wrong because Ukraine eventually received the aid that the administration had frozen. Pelosi argued against the “dangerous position” that the election ought to decide...
Top Trump Official Who Touted Bogus Credentials Resigns
A senior official at the State Department who came under fire after NBC News reported that she fabricated aspects of her professional and educational background, which included a fake TIME Magazine cover of herself, has reportedly resigned. According to a resignation letter obtained by Politico Monday afternoon, Mina Chang — who served as the...
