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Senate Republicans are vowing to quickly quash any articles of impeachment that pass the House and warn that Democrats will feel a political backlash if they go forward and impeach MORE. Republican senators say there are no grounds to impeach Trump and are daring Speaker MORE (D-Calif.) to embark on what they dismiss as a fool’s errand that will turn off swing voters. “My response to them is go hard or go home,” said Sen.

The White House on Tuesday declared that House Democrats "destroyed any chances of legislative progress" by launching an impeachment inquiry into MORE. Press secretary pursue a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump. "In a far departure from all of the work and results of this President, House Democrats have destroyed any chances of legislative progress for the people of this country by continuing to focus all their energy on partisan political attacks," Grisham said.

MORE on Tuesday offered to release a transcript of his call with Ukraine’s president to prove he’d done nothing improper, even as he blasted Democrats for launching an impeachment inquiry and insisted it would lead to his reelection. Trump branded the inquiry a “continuation of the witch hunt,” reviving his derisive moniker for former special counsel MORE’s investigation. In the immediate aftermath of Speaker MORE’s (D-Calif.) announcement, he unleashed a cascade of tweets from Trump Tower, where he was taking a brea

The White House is expected to give Congress the whistleblower complaint at the heart of a brewing scandal that has led to a formal House impeachment inquiry against MORE, a source confirmed to The Hill on Tuesday. Politico first reported that both the whistleblower complaint and Inspector General report will be released to Congress by the end of the week.

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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) announced on Tuesday that the whistleblower expressed a desire to speak to the committee and confirmed that lawmakers are speaking to his or her counsel. Schiff added that the testimony could come as “soon as this week”: The announcement sparked questions about the lawyers representing the whistleblower. Andrew P.

The inspector general’s report has, thus far, been withheld by the administration. Democrats allege that the Trump administration is violating the law in keeping the report from Congress, which was the chief reason cited Tuesday by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for changing her mind and supporting an impeachment inquiry. It is not clear why the administration had withheld the report, though the White House announced Tuesday that it will release the report Wednesday, along with the transcript of Trump’s conversation with the new president of Ukraine. Henry, citing a “senior official”

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“I am currently at the United Nations representing our Country, but have authorized the release tomorrow of the complete, fully declassified and unredacted transcript of my phone conversation with President Zelensky of Ukraine,” he wrote on Twitter. The president announced his decision as more House Democrats meet to discuss impeachment proceedings to check what they believe is an unprecedented abuse of executive power. Some House Democrats, such as Rep.

Growing calls for an impeachment inquiry burst into the center of the conversation on Tuesday as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi formally backed an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The historic announcement came after recent revelations that Trump pressured the leader of Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.