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A readout of MORE’s July 25 call to Ukraine’s president released by the White House on Wednesday offered new fuel for Democrats who had launched a formal impeachment inquiry just a day earlier. The five-page document showed that Trump encouraged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with his personal attorney and the attorney general to investigate unsubstantiated allegations against former Vice President MORE. “There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that

Ocasio-Cortez was speaking Wednesday on CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time when she described the inquiry as an “urgent action.” “We have the opportunity to act now to prevent a profoundly destabilizing action and intervention in our democracy before it happens,” she said.

Many congressional Democrats publicly declared it the “smoking gun,” while Republicans dismissed their cries by noting the absence of quid pro quo or generally lawless behavior. However, Democrats are striking a drastically different tone privately, as several reports indicate. The far-left flank of the Democrat caucus forced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to concede and announce a formal impeachment inquiry against the president on Tuesday.

“The battle lines are drawn,” a senior House GOP aide directly involved in the effort to expose Democrats on the floor with recorded votes told Breitbart News on Wednesday evening. “We now know where every member of the House is on impeachment. And we know it is purely partisan.” While the procedures are slightly D.C.

The Senate passed S.J. Res. 54, 54-41, which would terminate President Trump’s national emergency declaration on the southern border. The resolution was created by Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) and co-sponsored by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Susan Collins (R-ME). Sen.

WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans could be nearing crucial tests of their loyalty toward President Trump and of how well they’ve mastered the art of walking a political tightrope during his turbulent presidency. Should damning evidence accumulate that Trump pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate Joe Biden, a potential 2020 presidential rival, some Republicans facing reelection next year may be forced into a painful political box. Turn on Trump and risk jeopardizing his presidency and infuriating his staunchly loyal supporters.

KEENE, N.H. — One day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi initiated impeachment proceedings against President Trump, Senator Elizabeth Warren returned Wednesday to Keene State College where she called for impeachment last spring. “I never intended when I got into this presidential race that it would be about impeachment,” the Democratic presidential candidate told hundreds gathered at sunset on the campus green. “But as we now know, if Congress does not hold this man accountable, then he will break the law again and again and again.

WASHINGTON — Democrats who reviewed a secret whistleblower complaint involving President Donald Trump Wednesday called it ‘‘deeply disturbing’’ and said it gives them new leads to pursue as they consider impeachment. The complaint from an intelligence committee whistleblower, the document at the center of a firestorm about Trump’s handling of Ukraine, was made available to members of House and Senate intelligence committees Wednesday after weeks of delay.

WASHINGTON — For months, Massachusetts Representative Richard Neal resisted calling for a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump — at his own political peril — as dozens of his Democratic colleagues jumped on board. Now, after joining House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in making that call this week, the Springfield Democrat finds himself at the center of the action as one of six House committee chairs investigating Trump. Neal, who shies away from controversy, spent Tuesday and Wednesday in hastily arranged meetings with top Democrats on Capitol Hill about how

WASHINGTON — Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire is set to speak publicly for the first time about a secret whistleblower complaint involving President Trump as House Democrats who have read the document say it is ‘‘deeply disturbing.’’ House Democrats who are now mulling Trump’s impeachment are hoping that Maguire will explain why he withheld the intelligence community whistleblower’s complaint from Congress for weeks.