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Current and former administration officials are increasingly offering dirt on     The dam seems to have broken in recent weeks, with several officials defying the administration’s efforts to block their testimony.  Separately, former Defense Secretary   The developments underscore the threat posed by the sea of people who have filtered through the government during Trump’s three years in office.

Republican schisms over MORE are growing deeper as new details emerge about his actions on Ukraine and Democrats push hard for impeachment. Some Republicans on Capitol Hill are growing weary of defending Trump amid a blizzard of controversies — his de facto abandonment of the Kurds in northern Syria; his decision, swiftly reversed, to hold a Group of Seven (G-7) summit at his resort in Florida; and his likening of impeachment to “a lynching” in a Tuesday morning tweet. At the same time, other GOP lawmakers are keenly aware of the strong bond between Trump and Republic

House Republicans stormed a closed-door hearing Wednesday to protest the Democrats’ swift-moving impeachment inquiry, captivating Capitol Hill and delaying the deposition of a top Pentagon official who later testified about MORE’s dealings with Ukraine. Roughly 20 GOP members charged into the secure space in the Capitol basement where three House committees were set to interview Laura Cooper, a career Defense official who oversees Ukraine, as part of the House investigation into whether Trump sought help from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to boost his own ree

“We’re building a wall on the border of New Mexico, and we’re building a wall in Colorado,” Trump said. The president made his remarks during his speech at the ninth annual Shale Insight Conference in Pittsburgh. “We’re building a beautiful wall, a big one that really works, that you can’t get over, you can’t get under,” he said. It is unclear what the president meant, and White House aides did not explain or walk back the president’s remarks. “We’re building a wall in Texas,” he continued.

As CNSNews.com observed, Graham posted to Facebook on Tuesday: According to a press release from the office of Mayor London Breed last week, effective January 1, 2020, San Francisco will end “city-funded travel” to and “contracting” with 22 state

The debate, which is being sponsored by The Washington Post and MSNBC in Georgia on Nov.

Her admission seemed to contradict her denial the day before of an affair with a male member of her congressional staff, though the admission Wednesday may concern a different, female staffer who worked on her campaign but not in her Capitol Hill office. The House adopted new ethics rules this year (by voice vote, not roll call vote) banning romantic relationships between members of

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — Dale King rumbled into the parking lot in his military Jeep, a black 1940s-style clunker that he maneuvered with a skull-tipped stick shift. Heavy metal music blasted from the garage that he and some friends had converted to a gym for the neighboring addiction center. Patients from next door were packed inside wearing worn T-shirts, faded athletic gear, and other hand-me-downs. Half the class were barefoot.

KYIV, Ukraine — To Democrats who say that President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze a $391 million military aid package to Ukraine was intended to bully Ukraine’s leader into carrying out investigations for Trump’s political benefit, the president and his allies have had a simple response: There could not have been any quid pro quo because the Ukrainians did not know the assistance had been blocked. Following testimony by William B. Taylor Jr., the top U.S.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — More than two months before the phone call that launched the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, Ukraine’s newly elected leader was already worried about pressure from the U.S. president to investigate his Democratic rival Joe Biden. Volodymyr Zelenskiy gathered a small group of advisers on May 7 in Kyiv for a meeting that was supposed to be about his nation’s energy needs.