Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Thursday night that she will vote to allow new witnesses and documents as part of President Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate. Continue reading Two Key Republicans Split Democrats Unlikely To Get Witnesses
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The White House on Wednesday sent a formal threat to stop the publication of John Bolton’s book
The White House on Wednesday formally threatened former national security adviser John Bolton to prevent him from publishing his tell-all book, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir.” Continue reading The White House on Wednesday sent a formal threat to stop the publication of John Bolton’s book
WATCH: Pam Bondi lays out a devastating case against Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Burisma with her presentation to the Senate
Trump defense team member Pam Bondi told senators the president had ample reason to be concerned about Hunter Biden’s work as a paid board member for the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings. Continue reading WATCH: Pam Bondi lays out a devastating case against Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Burisma with her presentation to the Senate
The next Democratic debate will take place right before the NH primary
On February 7, ABC News and WMUR-TV in partnership with Apple News will host the eighth debate of the 2020 Democratic primaries at St. Anslem’s College in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Andrew Yang, and businessman Tom Steyer have qualified for the February debate.
The debate is set to run from 8 P.M. EST to 11 P.M. EST, and will have five moderators, three from ABC and two from WMUR.
The February debate will air live on ABC, on WMUR in New Hampshire, and in Spanish on Univision. It will also be available to stream on abcnews.com, wmur.com, and on Apple News.
President Trump denies telling Bolton Ukraine aid was tied to investigations
The New York Times reported Sunday evening that Bolton wrote in the manuscript of his upcoming book, titled “The Room Where It Happened,” that Trump said during an August meeting that he wanted to continue a freeze on the nearly $400 million in security aid for Ukraine until the government there agreed to investigate Biden and other Democrats.
The revelation in the book directly contradicts the White House’s insistence that the president did not explicitly connect the security aid and investigations.
An attorney representing Bolton said he delivered the manuscript to the White House on Dec. 30 to be reviewed for classified information, a process he said had been “corrupted.” The attorney stopped short of confirming the contents of the Times’s report.
President Donald Trump claimed Monday morning that he “NEVER” communicated to John Bolton that hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine were conditioned on foreign probes into his domestic political rivals.
“I NEVER told John Bolton that the aid to Ukraine was tied to investigations into Democrats, including the Bidens,” Trump tweeted. “In fact, he never complained about this at the time of his very public termination. If John Bolton said this, it was only to sell a book.”
WATCH: President Trump’s Legal Defense Team Opening Statement
Trump attorney accuses Dems of trying to interfere in 2020
White House counsel Pat Cipollone emphasized the gravity of the Senate impeachment trial proceedings and accused Democrats of trying to undo the 2016 presidential election – and interfere with the 2020 contest.
“They’re asking you to do something very, very consequential and … very, very dangerous,” Cipollone said. “They’re asking you not only to overturn the results of the last election but … asking you to remove President Trump from the ballot in an election that’s occurring in approximately nine months. They’re asking you to tear up all of the ballots across this country” and “take that decision away from the American people.”
Mike Purpura, deputy counsel to President Donald Trump, began by trying to undermine the credibility of Rep. Adam Schiff, the California Democrat and House Intelligence Committee chairman who led the impeachment inquiry.
He played a clip of Schiff reading the supposed transcript of Trump’s now infamous July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky. In the clip, Schiff appears to exaggerate the substance of the call – in what he later said was a “parody” – and suggested Trump had directly asked his Ukrainian counterpart for “dirt” on a political opponent.
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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, one of eight House lawmakers who are part of Trump’s defense team, told reporters Friday that the team is “very confident” because all of the facts are on the president’s side.
“I think this case is open and shut for the president,” Jordan said.
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Lindsey Graham: ‘If No One Will Investigate Joe and Hunter Biden, Then I Will’
No one has looked into a potential conflict of interest between former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, getting an “exorbitant salary” and seat on the board of Ukraine-based company Burisma, despite what Democrats have said, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Thursday. Continue reading Lindsey Graham: ‘If No One Will Investigate Joe and Hunter Biden, Then I Will’
Watch: ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Caught Making Throat-Slitting Gesture to Cut Away from Trump Lawyer
Whoops, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in the moment on live air, motioning to cut away from the Trump’s lawyer speaking the truth.
From Breitbart:
According to Tim Graham, executive editor of NewsBusters, Stephanopoulos was spotted on camera making the motion around 3:00 P.M. EST. The clip begins with a Capitol Hill reporter asking Sekulow for his thoughts on Attorney General William Barr, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and renowned lawyer Alan Dershowitz having previously made the argument that abuse of power is impeachable.
As Sekulow takes another question, Stephanopoulos orders staff situated off-camera to end the broadcast’s feed by making a throat-slitting gesture. The ABC News anchor then segues into a panel segment to discuss the Trump lawyer’s comments.
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