Politics Dec 03 A guide to the Democrats’ impeachment report Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released their report on the impeachment investigation Tuesday. The report concluded President Donald Trump put his personal interests over U.S. foreign policy and national security.
Politics Dec 03 What to expect from the Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings The next phase of the impeachment investigation will be led by Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-NY, whose committee is in charge of drawing up articles of impeachment against the president and sending them to the House floor for a final…
Politics Dec 02 Can a self-funded billionaire win over liberal Democrats? Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer's presidential campaigns will test the country’s appetite for rich, self-funded candidates in a year where some of the most popular platforms for the leading Democratic 2020 contenders include vowing to tax the ultra wealthy to…
Politics Nov 21 Hill dismisses Sondland’s Ukraine work as ‘domestic political errand,’ not foreign policy Thursday's testimony from Fiona Hill and another career diplomat concluded two weeks of public impeachment hearings by the House Intelligence Committee. Both Democrats and Republicans are digging in as the investigation shifts to the Judiciary Committee and a likely House…
Politics Nov 20 ‘Everyone was in the loop.’ Sondland confirms quid pro quo The U.S. ambassador to the European Union implicated much of the US foreign policy leadership in an effort to get Ukraine to say it would investigate President Trump’s political rival, but in the end, the country is left staring at…
Politics Nov 19 First-hand witnesses describe key Trump-Zelensky call on Day 3 of impeachment hearings The third day of public impeachment hearings produced damaging new testimony against President Donald Trump, including for the first time from witnesses who were listening on the pivotal July 25 phone call between him and the president of Ukraine.
Politics Nov 18 Will this week’s impeachment witnesses make a direct link to Trump? This week House impeachment investigators will hear from several witnesses who worked on U.S. policy towards Ukraine -- including one official who was on the July 25 call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Politics Nov 15 Day 2 of the impeachment hearings, and what we learned from Amb. Yovanovitch Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch put a human face on the House impeachment proceedings Friday with riveting testimony about her career in the foreign service and abrupt removal by the White House from her post in Kiev earlier…
Politics Nov 13 4 things we learned from the first day of impeachment hearings House lawmakers heard five dramatic hours of testimony Wednesday from key witnesses, bringing Capitol Hill to a standstill as Congress embarked on the first public impeachment hearings in two decades. The newest details came from Bill Taylor, the acting…
Politics Nov 12 Expect high drama and high stakes as public impeachment hearings begin The House marks a new phase in only the fourth impeachment inquiry in U.S. history Wednesday as public hearings begin with high drama and even higher stakes.