• Pelosi to send impeachment articles to the Senate next week

    Pelosi to send impeachment articles to the Senate next week

    Jan 10, 2020 04:55 PM EDT

    ... to block Bolton or others from the administration from appearing before senators. Many of those officials have defied congressional subpoenas for their testimony. “When we start allowing national security advisers to just go up and say whatever they want to say, we can’t do that,” Trump said during an ...

  • Hill dismisses Sondland’s Ukraine work as 'domestic political errand,' not foreign policy

    Hill dismisses Sondland’s Ukraine work as 'domestic political errand,' not foreign policy

    Nov 22, 2019 12:20 AM EDT

    ... very center of the controversy. But Republicans were effective in raising doubts about whether or not Holmes overheard the conversation accurately, and why his boss, Taylor, waited to disclose the call until after the impeachment hearings began. Holmes defended his recollection, but his testimony left some gray area that Republicans ...

  • How Sondland's testimony has differed from other impeachment witnesses

    How Sondland's testimony has differed from other impeachment witnesses

    Nov 20, 2019 01:40 PM EDT

    Weeks later, after testimony from Taylor and National Security Council official Tim Morrison placed him at the center of key discussions, Sondland revised his account in an extraordinary way. He said he now could recall a September conversation in which he told an aide to Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskiy that ...

  • 4 things we learned from the first day of impeachment hearings

    4 things we learned from the first day of impeachment hearings

    Nov 14, 2019 12:35 AM EDT

    ... got underway, the prevailing view among observers in Washington was that the final outcome -- impeachment in the House, and acquittal in the Senate -- was assured.Taylor and Kent’s testimony helped House Democrats generate some excitement at the start of the process. But the party will likely need to come ...

  • WATCH: The Trump Impeachment Hearings - Day 1

    WATCH: The Trump Impeachment Hearings - Day 1

    Nov 13, 2019 04:54 PM EDT

    ... starting at about 9 a.m. ET. Watch live in the video player above. The first witnesses before the House Intelligence Committee will be Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat for Ukraine and George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. After opening statements ...

  • How lessons from the Mueller hearing will guide the impeachment hearings

    How lessons from the Mueller hearing will guide the impeachment hearings

    Nov 13, 2019 12:50 AM EDT

    ... 2019. Witness quality really matters Democratic aides tell PBS NewsHour they want to bookend the public impeachment inquiry hearings with blockbuster witnesses. They want to start strong because they believe people are going to make a decision about the success of the hearings within the first 90 minutes. As a ...

  • What You Need to Know: Dems, GOP tussle over witnesses

    What You Need to Know: Dems, GOP tussle over witnesses

    Nov 09, 2019 04:05 PM EDT

    ... s and that he is a closer and even more senior adviser to the president than Kupperman was. ___ WHAT'S NEXT Investigators are preparing to start public hearings in the coming week. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said three State Department witnesses will appear in two hearings Wednesday and ...

  • Mulvaney skips impeachment probe interview, defying subpoena

    Mulvaney skips impeachment probe interview, defying subpoena

    Nov 08, 2019 01:44 PM EDT

    ... the center of the impeachment probe. Though Trump has said there was no "quid pro quo," several of the witnesses, including top Ukraine diplomat William Taylor, have testified that it was their understanding that Ukraine would not receive military assistance or a coveted Oval Office visit until it met the ...

  • Trial reveals Roger Stone quoted Nixon as he urged witness to stonewall Congress

    Trial reveals Roger Stone quoted Nixon as he urged witness to stonewall Congress

    Nov 07, 2019 07:47 PM EDT

    ... them misspelled or mangled by auto-correct so they appear as "Frank Pantsgele" or "Frank Cannon July 10." In multiple instances, Stone urges Credico to "start practicing your pentangeli" imitation.In cross-examination, defense attorney Bruce Rogow led the former FBI agent through an extremely slow and seemingly meandering review ...

  • John Bolton fails to appear before impeachment investigators

    John Bolton fails to appear before impeachment investigators

    Nov 07, 2019 05:48 PM EDT

    ... pro quo, the president did nothing wrong." Pence called the impeachment inquiry a "disgrace."Investigators are wrapping up the private interviews as they prepare to start public hearings next week. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff announced Wednesday that three State Department witnesses will appear in two hearings next Wednesday ...