Oct 07 Pentagon and budget office subpoenaed in impeachment inquiry By Associated Press House Democrats have subpoenaed the Pentagon and White House budget office for documents on delay of military aid to Ukraine. Continue reading
Oct 07 AP Fact Check: Trump points fingers as he faces impeachment inquiry By Hope Yen, Lindsay Whitehurst, Paul Wiseman, Associated Press President Donald Trump is turning to a familiar playbook to defend himself: blasting the inquiry as illegal, attacking his investigators and critics alike, and deriding the whistleblower process as all-but-rigged. Many facts are getting lost in the process. Continue reading
Oct 07 New whistleblower may give House Democrats fresh information By Eric Tucker, Richard Lardner, Jill Colvin, Associated Press A second individual has emerged who could corroborate the original whistleblower's complaint gripped Washington and potentially heightened the stakes for Trump. Continue reading
Oct 04 Watch 8:53 As House probe intensifies, Trump mounts a strategy of offense Despite the release of text messages among Trump administration officials referencing both the president’s desire for Ukraine to investigate the Biden family and the idea of withholding a relationship as leverage, President Donald Trump is insisting his actions reflect a… Continue watching
Oct 04 Watch 7:38 Why talking to Ukrainian officials disproves the Trump narrative on Biden By Simon Ostrovsky Ukraine lies at the heart of the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, who has urged the country’s new president to investigate the Biden family. Special correspondent Simon Ostrovsky, who has reported from the country for years, returns there to… Continue watching
Oct 04 Watch 3:43 Amid Ukraine furor, IRS whistleblower alleges Treasury wrongdoing The IRS conducts annual audits of the president’s and vice president’s tax returns in a process intended to be protected from politics. But now, a whistleblower is alleging that at least one political appointee at the Treasury Department interfered with… Continue watching
Oct 04 Watch 12:32 Mark Shields and Ramesh Ponnuru on Trump, Ukraine and 'quid pro quo' Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Ramesh Ponnuru of The National Review join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s political news, including President Trump’s insistence that foreign leaders should investigate the Biden family, how the White House is responding to the… Continue watching
Oct 04 Read former special envoy Volker's full prepared testimony on Trump-Ukraine controversy By Yasmeen Alamiri, Nick Schifrin According to a copy of the testimony Volker gave to a closed-door meeting of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and members of the Intelligence and Oversight Committees, released to PBS NewsHour by someone who had seen it, Volker said… Continue reading
Oct 04 White House is preparing a formal objection to impeachment inquiry By Zeke Miller, Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press Trump acknowledged that Democrats in the House "have the votes" to begin a formal impeachment inquiry, even if they don't in the Senate. Continue reading
Oct 04 Ukraine to review case into company that employed Hunter Biden By Yuras Karmanau, Associated Press Prosecutors are auditing all the cases that were closed or dismissed by former prosecutors, including several related to Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of the gas company Burisma that hired Hunter Biden in 2014,… Continue reading