by Jim Heath | Nov 6, 2019 | Congress, Headlines, Impeachment
The House Intelligence Committee will hold the first of a series of public impeachment hearings next week, Democrats announced today, calling three senior State Department officials to testify as they begin laying out their case against President Trump. In the debut...
by Jim Heath | Nov 5, 2019 | Headlines, Impeachment
A critical witness in the impeachment inquiry offered Congress substantial new testimony this week, revealing that he told a top Ukrainian official that the country likely would not receive American military aid unless it publicly committed to investigations President...
by Jim Heath | Nov 4, 2019 | Headlines, Impeachment
The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine described to House impeachment investigators a diplomatic corps under siege by President Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, saying she felt threatened by Trump’s posture toward her. Marie Yovanovitch said individuals...
by Jim Heath | Oct 29, 2019 | Headlines, Impeachment
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council’s top Ukraine expert, told House impeachment investigators today that the White House transcript of the July call between President Trump and Ukraine’s president missed key words or crucial phrases that...
by Jim Heath | Oct 29, 2019 | Headlines, Impeachment
As Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman began testifying today in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump, the president’s allies coalesced around a new talking point. Vindman, some pundits contended, may be loyal to Ukraine because he was born there. The attack on the...
by Jim Heath | Oct 28, 2019 | Headlines, Impeachment
A White House national security official who is a decorated Iraq war veteran plans to tell House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that he heard President Trump appeal to Ukraine’s president to investigate one of his leading political rivals, a request the aide...