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“This guy just you know again, goes for the photo-op, you remember all of these fags — flags — that looked almost fake” Harris told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, referring to President Trump’s meetings with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in Singapore and Hanoi Summit, Vietnam. Earlier Wednesday evening, Harris argued during the debate that President Trump had gotten “punked” on foreign policy regarding his administration’s denuclearization negotiations with North Korea. When asked whether she would have held a summit with Kim, Harris

BLOOMER, Wis. — Marc Boettcher’s day started before dawn, when he fired up the hammer mill that ground up corn for a mixture he fed to the steers in his barn. There was an empty room where he used to milk dairy cows until he sold them a couple of years back, but on a cold morning this summer, much of the barn was full of cattle — curious, anxious, and endearingly weird — who jostled one another to get a look at him. One left him a gift of manure in the drinking trough.

Call it the Amy Klobuchar debate, after the Minnesota senator who broke through in a forum with no clear winner. Call it the quartet debate, after Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former vice president Joe Biden, and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who polls have found bunched up at the top of the Democratic presidential race. Call it the impeachment debate, a forum that came amid hours and hours of testimony from the House impeachment inquiry into President Trump, but the topic didn’t dominate the evening. Whatever you call it, the two hour deba

WASHINGTON — Ten Democrats seeking the presidency vied for advantage Wednesday night in a debate just over two months before the primary voting begins. Here’s a look at how some of their claims from Atlanta stack up with the facts: Senator Bernie Sanders: “What the scientists are telling us is if we don’t get our act together within the next eight or nine years, we’re talking about cities all over the world, major cities going underwater, we’re talking about increased drought, we’re talking about increased extreme weather disturbances.” THE FACTS: T

ATLANTA — The top Democratic presidential candidates spent large chunks of prime-time television clashing over “Medicare for All” — again. Like a string of previous debates, Wednesday’s prominently featured squabbles over a program that could alienate general-election swing voters who may be wary of fully government-run, universal health care and that will be extraordinarily difficult to get through Congress — even if Democrats take the White House and make significant 2020 congressional gains. The latest faceoff, in Atlanta, came against the backdrop of impeach

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MORE on Tuesday hailed the third day of public impeachment proceedings as a “great day for Republicans” following a pair of hearings that offered sharply different interpretations of whether the president behaved improperly. “A great day for Republicans, a great day for our Country!” Trump tweeted as the second of two hearings on the day came to a close. Trump declared earlier in the day that “Republicans are absolutely killing it” in a show of approval for the performance of his GOP allies. Four witnesses testified before the House Intelligence Committee over the cou

MORE on Tuesday, but it was a high-risk strategy that seemed to backfire. Trump himself downplayed Vindman’s importance, despite the fact that he serves as the director for European Affairs on the National Security Council (NSC). “I don’t know him,” Trump told reporters at a White House Cabinet meeting. “I never saw the man.” Vindman was on the president’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, however.

MORE’s interactions with Ukraine, marking a long day of marathon hearings on Capitol Hill as Democrats press their case for impeachment with the TV-viewing public.  All four witnesses had testified previously, leaving few lingering questions about their role in the affair or their assessment of Trump’s handling of foreign policy in Kyiv.

House investigators staged another marathon day of public impeachment hearings on Tuesday, featuring a career military official defending his years of service from GOP questions of loyalty as well as a top diplomat, hand-picked by Republicans, who shifted his testimony to offer a more critical view of MORE’s contacts with Ukraine. Lt. Col.