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.
State Department official George Kent was asked about the Ukrainian investigation into Burisma Holdings and why it was closed.
He was the lynchpin that triggered the Russia “collusion” investigation, yet Joseph Mifsud was never brought into the proceedings. For more than two years, he has gone underground – his name resurfacing in recent weeks as a key subject in U.S. Attorney General William Barr and prosecutor John Durham’s criminal probe.
Congressional Democrats are trying to take away America's political voice, gun rights, health care, and freedom by targeting President Trump and attempting to remove him from office, the commander-in-chief said in a Wednesday video, filmed outside the White House.
As hearings begin in the House GOP Senators skip.
With relations between Washington and Ankara facing historic strains, President Trump on Wednesday held a high-stakes meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan just weeks after the latter ordered a controversial invasion of northern Syria following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the region.
Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testified on Wednesday that a staff member recently told him that they overheard a phone conversation between President Trump and Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland in which the president asked about “the investigations.”
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was absent from oral arguments before the high court Wednesday morning due to an illness.
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., kicked off the first public hearing of the Trump impeachment inquiry Wednesday by dismissing the allegations as a "carefully orchestrated smear campaign" and a "low-rent" follow-up to the Russia investigation, which failed to produce evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow.
In endorsing Joe Biden on Wednesday, Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio called the former vice president a “trusted leader” and someone who “will not only be a voice for workers and the middle class, but I know he will get things done.” But when Ryan – who ended his own bid for the Democratic presidential nomination late last month – who was running for the White House, Biden was often in his sites.