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WASHINGTON — House Democrats are preparing to move their largely private impeachment inquiry onto a more public stage as soon as mid-November and are already grappling with how best to present the complex Ukraine saga to the American people. Over the past three weeks, a parade of current and former Trump administration officials have testified behind closed doors, providing House investigators with a compelling narrative of President Trump’s campaign to extract political favors from Ukrainian officials.

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U.S. evangelical and Christian groups are standing behind MORE despite their opposition to his decision to withdraw U.S.

An effort to counter MORE’s Syria strategy is running into partisan land mines on Capitol Hill.  The emerging battle lines increase the chance that nothing will be able to pass Congress, despite the widespread bipartisan backlash sparked by the president’s decision to pull back troops from northern Syria ahead of Turkey’s invasion.  Lawmakers say they are still mulling potential financial penalties against Ankara or a resolution to formally oppose Trump’s decision, but so far they’ve failed to coalesce behind a policy. Senate Majority Leader MORE

Current and former administration officials are urging the White House to hire a new chief strategist as MORE’s allies grow frustrated with the administration’s response to the House impeachment inquiry. The role of White House chief strategist has been vacant since Stephen Bannon was forced out of the position more than two years ago. Trump has so far refused to launch an impeachment “war room,” with one source close to the White House saying the president believes it would make him look politically weak and another describing it as “political hocus pocus.” Acting Wh

A top U.S. diplomat gave explosive testimony Tuesday tying Ukraine aid to politically motivated investigations, a development Democrats called a game changer that could extend the impeachment inquiry into 2020. William Taylor, the head of the U.S.

Sen. Hawley recently started arguing with Greg Sargent, a writer for the Washington Post’s The Plum Line blog, regarding an article that said D.C. bureaucrats reportedly consider it a “punishment” to move to Missouri. The Missouri conservative contended he was merely defending his home state and that the left has engaged in “open contempt for the people of the heartland.” Sen. Hawley said that “only a smug, rich liberal elitist would say that defending your home is ‘phony pastoral posturing.'” by almost 20 points? This is why.” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) echoed Sen.

Under James Comey’s former directorship of the FBI, the federal government surveilled Trump’s political associates as early as 2015, ostensibly as a “counterintelligence” operation on alleged Russian “interference” in 2016’s presidential election. In May, Attorney General William Barr appointed U.S.

Democrats are reportedly expected to delay a vote on articles of impeachment until after Thanksgiving, possibly into the Christmas season.