Section: TPM (USA)
WATCH LIVE: Ousted Ukraine Ambassador Testifies In Impeachment Hearing
Ousted U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch is scheduled to appear at an open hearing in the House impeachment probe at 9 a.m. Friday. Watch the hearing live: …read more Source::...
White House Budget Official Will Testify In Impeachment Probe
Mark Sandy, a career official at the Office of Management and Budget, will testify in a closed-door session with House impeachment investigators on Saturday. Sandy’s lawyer, Barbara “Biz” Van Gelder, confirmed to the Washington Post on Thursday that her client will cooperate with the investigation into President Donald Trump’s attempt...
Lawyer Has To Clarify Giuliani Joke About Getting Thrown Under The Bus By Trump
If Rudy Giuliani, a central figure in the impeachment probe into President Trump, is going to keep talking to the media, at least he’s now letting his lawyer chaperone him. The lawyer, Robert Costello, who Giuliani only hired last week, felt the need to interject when Giuliani was asked by the Guardian about speculation that he may be...
McCarthy Says Taylor’s Explosive Claim Doesn’t Change His Mind On Impeachment
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) remains a hard pass on impeachment even after acting ambassador Bill Taylor dropped an explosive new claim during his public testimony Wednesday. Taylor revealed a previously unknown phone conversation in July that his staffer overheard between President Trump and EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland, which...
Zelensky Nearly Announced The Investigations Trump Wanted — Then Everything Changed
The stage was set. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had received an ultimatum from the Trump administration. He was negotiating to sit for an interview with CNN host Fareed Zakaria. And Zelensky was prepared to do it: The President of Ukraine would go on international television and announce investigations into President Donald...
Another Absolute Must Read!
Truly another must-read from the team today. We know the “deliverable” (a Biden investigation announcement) from President Zelensky never got delivered and that has become a key part of the Republican defense. No harm, no foul. But as Matt Shuham explains here Zelensky was no more than 24 hours from recording the interview tarring the...
AP: 2nd Embassy Staffer Overheard Call In Which Trump Asked Sondland About Investigations
Two embassy staffers in Kyiv, not just one, overheard a phone call in which President Donald Trump asked EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland about “the investigations,” the Associated Press reported Thursday. Acting Ukraine Ambassador Bill Taylor made the bombshell revelation Wednesday that, a day after the now-infamous phone call in which Trump...
Absolute Must Read
I can’t recommend this article to you strongly enough. If that’s enough to hear, here’s the link. I have wondered, many of you have asked me, just what the rush of activity was to get Vladimir Zelensky to kick off and publicly announce these investigations. After all, during the key events the US election was well over a year...
Fox Personalities Mock Amount Of Water Impeachment Witness Drank At Open Hearing
On Wednesday night, Fox News personalities Laura Ingraham and Raymond Arroyo tried to downplay the magnitude of the open impeachment investigation hearing by making fun of Ukraine diplomat George Kent’s looks and…how much water he drank. “Well whomever he looked like, he drank a lot of water, Laura,” Arroyo said while shaking his head. “I...
Yawn: Trumpworld Rallies Around Calling Impeachment Hearing A Snoozefest
White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway joined the chorus of Trump administration officials and allies who found the first public impeachment hearing to be boring. During an interview on “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning, co-host Brian Kilmeade pressed Conway about whether the White House has an “offensive push” to avoid impeachment or to “just...
