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White House counselor MORE and three other witnesses to testify at a Senate impeachment trial as requested by the top Democrat in the Senate. “We don’t do things just because Sen. [Charles] Schumer [D-N.Y.] asks us to do them. That’s very clear,” Conway told reporters at the White House on Monday evening. “Starting on Oct. 8, our White House counsel made very clear that he looks at the entire process as unconstitutional, illegitimate and ill-conceived.” “There is no reason for them to go and testify in the Senate trial as far as we can see.

Sen. MORE (I-Vt.) is rising in the polls ahead of Thursday’s pivotal debate in Los Angeles, reestablishing his standing in the top tier of Democratic contenders with the Iowa caucuses less than 50 days away. Sanders, who electrified liberals over the course of his unlikely challenge to former Secretary of State MORE. But party leaders and the news media are taking notice now that Warren has slipped in the polls.

Democrats have a new talking point in their attack on Senate Republicans, ahead of a House vote on the impeachment of President Donald Trump later this week: the Senate is denying Trump a “fair trial.” That is the line taken by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Monday, as he insisted that Republicans allow Democrats to call four witnesses who did not appear during the House inquiry. Three of those witnesses were subpoenaed by the House Intelligence Committee, and declined to appear.

Congressman Tom Reed (R-NY) joined SirusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday, where he discussed the impeachment process against President Donald Trump and the unease within the Democrat Party. “It’s clear. Substantively, the grounds for impeachment are not there. The Republicans are sticking tight,” Reed said.

House Democrats now have the votes to impeach President Donald J.

“Facts really do matter.” President Trump is a stooge of Russia, a puppet of Vladimir Putin, we have been told from the beginning. He is a morally unhinged reprobate unworthy of the White House. We heard this from the most powerful perches of our government. It was all sourced directly to the highest offices of our Department of Justice and American intelligence services. The “Steele dossier,” they called it.

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.

HAZLETON, Pa. — Bob Curry is a man in constant motion, not unlike this fast-changing community he’s always championing. Passing a colorful mural in the community center he runs, its rainbow letters spelling out a Maya Angelou quote about the strength and beauty of diversity, he paused for effect. “You see our mural, if you don’t like it, get back on the elevator, you’re free to leave,” Curry proclaimed. He’s kidding — sort of.

MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. — The kettle steamed in the background as a familiar yet painful argument began to boil over between father and daughter in the Slewo home last Inauguration Day. “My president is going to be good for the Christians and the economy,” Warda Slewo, an ardent Donald Trump fan, told his daughter, Ashourina Slewo, in her small kitchen in the northeastern suburbs of Detroit on Jan. 20, 2017. “Your president is a racist,” Ashourina shot back.

NEW LONDON, Wis.—After it was clear that neither of her preferred candidates, Ben Carson and Ted Cruz, was going to be elected president in 2016, Linda Behm prayed. Behm is an evangelical Christian and keeps a calendar filled with volunteer shifts at a thrift store and a food pantry in this small community an hour away from Green Bay. She wasn’t sure about supporting Donald J. Trump, the New York business magnate with a penchant for insults and crude behavior.