by Jim Heath | Oct 31, 2019 | Congress, Headlines
The House of Representatives voted today to approve its first resolution related to their impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The resolution passed by a vote of 232 to 196, with Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN) and Jeff Van Drew (D-NJ) dissenting from their party to...
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 26, 2019 | Headlines, Impeachment
A lawyer for the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told The Wall Street Journal that Sondland told impeachment committee members that President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine amounted to a quid pro quo. Sondland’s lawyer, Robert Luskin,...
by Jim Heath | Oct 26, 2019 | Headlines, Impeachment
Philip Reeker, a senior State Department official who tried to counteract a campaign of falsehoods that undermined the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, testified before House impeachment investigators today. According to an official working on the impeachment inquirer,...