by Jim Heath | Nov 19, 2019 | Headlines, Impeachment
Former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker and former National Security Council Russia adviser Tim Morrison — two witnesses called by Republicans — testified this afternoon in the second public impeachment hearing of the day. Volker was part of a cadre of...
by Jim Heath | Nov 17, 2019 | Headlines, Impeachment
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invited President Trump to testify in front of investigators in the House impeachment inquiry ahead of a week that will see several key witnesses appear publicly. Pushing back against accusations from the president that the...
by Jim Heath | Nov 16, 2019 | Headlines, Impeachment, Trump
President Trump claimed yesterday the identity of the whistleblower who first raised concerns about his relationship with Ukraine is known to everyone in D.C. “Everyone in Washington knows who it is, by the way. The whistleblower is no great secret,” Trump...
by Jim Heath | Nov 15, 2019 | Headlines, Impeachment
David Holmes, a top state department aide, today told a House Committee that he had overheard President Trump’s conversation with the US ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland. Holmes said during the conversation, Sondland told Trump that the Ukranian...
by Jim Heath | Nov 15, 2019 | Headlines, Impeachment
Former U.S. Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch provided chilling detail today in Trump impeachment hearings of being suddenly ousted from her post and feeling threatened upon learning President Trump had denounced her in a phone call to Ukraine’s president. In that...
by Jim Heath | Nov 15, 2019 | Headlines, Impeachment
The White House this morning released a memo detailing President Trump’s first call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which the two leaders exchanged congratulations on their respective election victories. At one point during the May call, Trump...