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Audience members at Friday’s impeachment inquiry broke into applause after former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine MORE concluded her testimony. Even as Rep.

House Democrats wasted no time Friday saying MORE’s real-time Twitter attack on a top U.S. diplomat — as she was testifying on Trump’s dealings with Ukraine — was more evidence of presidential misconduct as they charge ahead with their impeachment probe.  “The president in real time is engaging in witness intimidation and witness tampering,” an exasperated Rep. MORE, the former U.S.

House impeachment investigators on Friday heard from a new witness claiming first-hand knowledge of obtained by CNN. “So, he’s gonna do the investigation?” Trump asked, according to Holmes's testimony.

"He’s gonna do it,” Sondland replied.

MORE’s side-channel foreign policy in Kyiv “knee-capped” U.S. anti-corruption efforts, deflated morale at the State Department and struck a blow to career diplomats fighting to advance U.S.

Democrats’ impeachment inquiry received a boost of momentum from the Friday testimony of MORE as she detailed in personal terms how a shadowy smear campaign successfully led to her removal as the top U.S.

“Do you have any information regarding the President of the United States accepting any bribes?” asked Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) of former Ambassador Yovanovitch. “No,” replied Yovanovitch. “Do you have any information regarding any criminal activity that the President of the United States has been involved with at all?” asked Rep. Stewart. “No,” answered Yovanovitch. The former ambassador to Ukraine admitted this on Friday during the second day of the public impeachment hearings. “Thank you for answering that directly,” said Stewart. “The American people know this is nonsense.

Hill resigned this month after facing mounting allegations of inappropriate sexual relationships with congressional staffers, one of which she admitted to.Gavin Newsom (D) on Friday set the special election date for the 25th Congressional District seat: March 3, 2020. Uygur is throwing his hat in the ring. His campaign website states: A statement released on Thursday indicated that Uhgur “will no longer hav

CBS News points to figures from the Gun Violence Archive (GVA) suggesting there have been 366 mass shootings during the first 319 days of 2019. Ironically, GVA has long reported higher numbers of mass shootings than other outlets because they define mass shootings differently.

The fact that Holmes claimed to have overheard the conversation was revealed on Wednesday, during the first public hearing in the impeachment inquiry, when Charge d’affaires William Taylor updated his own closed-door testimony from last month.

ERIE, Pa. — Harold Klinzing, a 46-year-old roofer who loves his labor union, is the sort of voter Democratic presidential victories were once built upon. “I loved Bill Clinton,” Klinzing recalled fondly. “He was my favorite president. I loved him to death.” But after voting for Barack Obama in 2008, Klinzing, a lifelong Democrat, had soured on him by 2012 and sat out that election entirely.