Several GOP senators say privately that it would be much better to limit the trial and quickly vote to acquit Trump, rather than engage in what could become a political circus.
The nation saw a split screen Tuesday, in which Nancy Pelosi dashed from a somber announcement of articles of impeachment against the president to a jubilant proclamation of a revised North American trade accord.
Justice Department IG report examining the FBI investigation of Trump’s 2016 campaign rebutted accusations that officials were driven by political bias, but found broad failures requiring major changes. Read the full reporting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/inspector-general-report-trump-russia-investigation/2019/12/09/d5940d88-184c-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=daily-202-big-idea...
The Post obtained records from more than 400 of the interviews after a three-year legal battle. The documents reveal that people who were directly involved in the war could not shake their doubts about the strategy and mission. Read the full reporting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents/?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=daily-202-big-idea...
with a five-minute nationally televised address on Thursday morning, Pelosi has become the reluctant face of the impeachment effort.
Over the past year, my colleagues Josh Parlow and Dave Fahrenthold have interviewed 48 people who worked illegally for the Trump Organization at 11 of its properties in Florida, New Jersey, New York and Virginia. Read the article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-two-undocumented-housekeepers-took-on-the-president--and-revealed-trumps-long-term-reliance-on-illegal-immigrants/2019/12/04/3dff5b5c-0a15-11ea-bd9d-c628fd48b3a0_story.html?utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&am...
Some of Capitol Hill’s most aggressive and colorful characters in both parties will have a new platform as the impeachment inquiry moves to the Judiciary Committee
Attorney General Bill Barr has told associates he disagrees with the Justice Department’s inspector general on one of the key findings in an upcoming report about the FBI’s Russia investigation.
By the end of this month, more than 500 Ukrainian prosecutors will be out of their jobs as part of sweeping professional reviews under Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
President Trump knew about the whistleblower's complaint before he reluctantly unfroze the military aid to Ukraine.
A federal court ruled last night that former Trump White House counsel Donald McGahn must comply with a House subpoena, finding that “no one is above the law” and that top presidential advisers cannot ignore congressional demands for information.
A confidential White House review of President Trump’s decision to place a hold on military aid to Ukraine has turned up hundreds of documents that reveal extensive efforts to generate an after-the-fact justification for the decision.
Hill emerged as one of the few witnesses over the past two weeks able to move from providing accounts of events inside the White House to placing the unfolding Ukraine scandal in a broader political context.
Gordon Sondland was almost nonchalant as he implicated the president and his top advisers in a scheme – maybe even a conspiracy – to pressure Ukraine.
Three current and former Trump administration officials described during congressional testimony yesterday how they harbored a variety of concerns surrounding the July 25 call.
A counselor in the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine told lawmakers that he was shocked to overhear a phone call in which a top diplomat assured President Trump that Ukrainian officials would pursue an investigation of interest to the U.S. commander in chief.
Everything seemed ready to go: President Trump’s ban on most flavored e-cigarettes had been cleared by federal regulators. But the night before a planned morning news conference, the president balked.
Using her most aggressive language yet, Nancy Pelosi accused Trump of committing “bribery” by seeking to use U.S. military aid as leverage to pressure the Ukrainian government to conduct investigations that could politically benefit the president.
The first day of public impeachment hearings unearthed new evidence potentially implicating President Trump more directly in a scheme to center American policy toward Ukraine on political investigations.
The House will begin the public phase of its impeachment inquiry with Democrats and Republicans prepared to offer competing narratives of whether President Trump inappropriately pressured Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.
The White House’s bifurcated and disjointed response to the impeachment inquiry has been fueled by a battle between acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and White House counsel Pat Cipollone.
In the nearly 3,000 pages of interview transcripts from the House impeachment inquiry released last week, Trump often seems like a supporting character in someone else’s drama.
The House GOP's emerging plan to save Trump is to turn the blame on three of his deputies: E.U. Ambassador Gordon Sondland, personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and, possibly, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.
President Trump wanted Attorney General Bill Barr to hold a news conference declaring that the commander in chief had broken no laws during a phone call in which he pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate a political rival.
The results of Tuesday’s off-year elections have left Republicans stumbling and increasingly uncertain about their own political fates next year, as they’re increasingly tied to an embattled and unpopular president.
An attorney for Lev Parnas, one of the two associates of Rudy Giuliani who was arrested last month as he tried to fly to Europe with a one-way plane ticket, said last night that his client is willing to comply with the House impeachment inquiry.
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney’s allies in the administration plan to stonewall and obstruct the impeachment inquiry as much as possible in a bid to ingratiate themselves with President Trump
New research shows that rising seas will be much worse and more expensive to deal with than previously thought.
As depositions continue, the House is on track today to pass the set of rules governing the next phase of the impeachment inquiry.
President Trump and his allies on television lashed out yesterday at Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman as he testified under oath on Capitol Hill for more than 10 hours.
