6 Big Moments From Day 5 of Public Impeachment Hearings
Two career foreign policy officials testified Thursday that President Donald Trump altered U.S. policy toward Ukraine for a political agenda of going after former Vice President Joe Biden.
Fiona Hill, a former official with the National Security Council who was Trump’s adviser on Russia, and David Holmes, political counselor to the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv, testified on the fifth day of public impeachment hearings held by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Here are six highlights from their sworn testimony in the impeachment inquiry that grew out of Trump’s July 25 phone conversation with Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. -- More...
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Impeachment witness scolds Nunes for calling him mister: 'Lt. Col. Vindman, please'
The testimony of National Security Council official Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman grew tense Tuesday under questioning from Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif. -- as the impeachment hearing witness eventually scolded the top intelligence committee Republican for not addressing him by his military title.
The moment came amid a back-and-forth over the identity of the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint about President Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky led to the impeachment proceedings. -- More...
Yovanovitch grilled on alleged Ukraine election meddling as DNC figure defends role
Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was repeatedly questioned during Friday's public impeachment hearing over allegations that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 presidential election in opposition to President Trump.
The questioning drew a rare response from Alexandra Chalupa, the former Democratic National Committee consultant whose work has been cited by Republican lawmakers as evidence of Ukraine's election interference.-- More...
Confirmed: Dems Switched From “Quid Pro Quo” To “Bribery” Because A Focus Group Told Them It Was Better
Something to bear in mind the next time Pelosi starts burbling about how “prayerful” this process has been for them.
Apparently Jesus told her to start focus-grouping battleground states to find the way forward. -- More...
FNC’s Roberts: Trump’s Yovanovitch Tweet Caused ‘a Lot of Damage’ to Foreheads at the White House
On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Your World, Fox News Neil Cavuto,” John Roberts reported on White House officials’ reactions to President Donald Trump’s tweet about former Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch.
While mimicking someone smacking their forehead, Roberts said, “I don’t know how much political damage that tweet is going to do, Neil, but certainly I think there was a lot of damage here at the White House to a collective group of foreheads as people went like this as the President tweeted that outright in the middle of the hearing. If anything, what it did was it really took the Republicans off of the message that they were trying to put out there and took this hearing in an entirely different direction than it had been before.”-- More...
Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started off in Somalia, how did that go? Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. It is a U.S. President’s absolute right to appoint ambassadors.
Obama’s own State Dept. was so concerned about conflicts of interest from Hunter Biden’s role at Burisma that they raised it themselves while prepping the Ambassador for her confirmation. Yet our Democratic colleagues & Adam Schiff cry foul when we dare ask that same question. pic.twitter.com/jZ0UVItU3e
Tensions boil over at impeachment hearing, as Nunes accuses Schiff of 'gagging' lawmakers
Tensions between lawmakers boiled over Friday on the second day of the public impeachment hearings, when House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., repeatedly shut down GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., citing House procedure -- as an astonished Ranking Member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., accused him of "gagging" the lawmaker.
"This is the fifth time you have interrupted a duly-elected member of Congress," Stefanik told Schiff, who repeatedly told her she was "not recognized" to speak.-- More...
To fight the Russians, Obama sent Ukraine blankets.
Impeachment hearing testimony details Trump pursuit of Ukraine ‘investigations,’ as GOP decries ‘hearsay’
Diplomats testifying on the opening day of impeachment inquiry hearings delivered a stark account Wednesday of President Trump's pursuit of political "investigations" in Ukraine and attorney Rudy Giuliani's alleged meddling in that country, while Republicans panned the entire process as a "low-rent Ukrainian sequel" to the Russia collusion case and hit back at the claims as mere “hearsay.”
For his part, Trump spent much of the day meeting with the visiting Turkish president, saying he was too busy to watch the historic hearing. And he released a video declaring: "They're trying to stop me because I'm fighting for you. And I'll never let that happen."-- More...
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Rep. Jordan chides diplomat on quid pro quo claims: ‘Your clear understanding was obviously wrong’
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan led some of the toughest questioning during Wednesday's impeachment hearing, challenging Ukraine ambassador William Taylor over his claims that he understood President Trump to be holding up aid and more as he sought to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce a Biden-related probe.
Taylor has said he had a "clear" understanding that the release of aid to Ukraine was linked to a request for investigations of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, and Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company that counted the younger Biden as a board member. Jordan brought up three meetings that Taylor had with Zelensky between the time the aid was delayed and eventually released, and Taylor confirmed that "there was not discussion of linkage" during any of them. -- More...
Jordan: 'Obama gave them blankets, Trump gave them missiles'
Jim Jordan explains Trump called a "timeout" to verify President Zelensky was the "real deal," then delivered Ukraine aid to fight the Russians
The 'hole' in Democrats impeachment argument: Ratcliffe
"President Zelensky didn't do any of the things House Democrats say he was being forced to do," says John Ratcliffe discussing Ukraine aid
Rep. Nunes: Elements of the civil service have decided that they, not the president, are really in charge
House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Republican Devin Nunes makes his opening statement during the first public impeachment hearing.
Nunes Stumps Impeachment Witness on Obama-Russia Hot Mic Moment: ‘Was That Inflammatory to the Ukrainians?’
House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) used his opening line of questioning to demonstrate the instances of Ukrainian meddling in the presidential election against President Trump and reminded the witnesses – and Democrats on the committee – of former President Obama’s infamous “hot mic” moment with the former Russian president in 2012.
Nunes used his opening line of questioning to demonstrate Ukrainian election interference, validating Trump’s initial concerns in regard to Ukraine.
“Alexandra Chalupa, a former staffer for the Democratic National Committee, admitted to Politico that she worked with officials at the Ukrainian embassy in Washington, DC, to dig up dirt on the Trump campaign, which she passed on the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign,” Nunes stated.-- More...
