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MORE and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had a chummy meeting at the White House on Wednesday just a month after they ignited a bipartisan firestorm in Washington over Ankara’s invasion of northern Syria.

In a meeting overshadowed by the drama of the House’s first public impeachment hearing, even the joint press conference between the two leaders started with a question about the Democratic-led hearings at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. “You’re talking about the witch hunt,” Trump said, adding that he didn’t watch the proceedings.

The top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine on Wednesday offered a long and intricate account of MORE’s “highly irregular” foreign policy in Kyiv, providing new details of the episode — ones that appeared to boost Democrats’ case — in the first public hearing of their impeachment inquiry. House Democrats left the open hearing buzzing about the new developments provided by William Taylor, U.S.

The first public impeachment hearing in 20 years featured two career diplomats on the front lines of MORE’s dealings with Ukraine.  William Taylor, the acting ambassador to Ukraine, and George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs, testified for more than five hours amid a media frenzy and partisan bickering over the future of the Trump presidency. Here are five takeaways. Taylor was a credible witness There’s a good reason why Democrats called Taylor to testify before their first public hearing on impeachment

“I’ve seen church prayer chains that are easier to understand than this,” Jordan said. Jordan gave Taylor a document that contained a clarification to testimony Gordon Sondland, ambassador to the European Union, gave in a closed-door deposition to the House Intelligence Committee. “Ambassador Taylor says that he recalls that I told Mr. Morrison that I convinced Mr.

“It was a total disaster for us,” one senior House Democrat aide told Breitbart News. “Too complicated,” another Democrat aide said. “This won’t make sense to regular people,” a third Democrat aide told Breitbart News. Wednesday marked the first public hearing of the Democrats’ formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. The hearing opened slowly, taking 93 minutes for the panel’s chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and its ranking member Rep.

Graham added that he would not allow a trial of President Donald Trump in the Senate based on hearsay evidence alone, and without testimony from the “whistleblower.” Graham was speaking after the close of the first day of public hearings in the House Intelligence Committee as part of the “impeachment inquiry” authorized by Democrats in a House resolution that passed on party lines October 31. After the first two witnesses testified, Democrats on the committee voted along party lines to table a motion made by Republicans to call the “whistleblower” — who admitted having no first-hand knowledge

The top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, Amb. Bill Taylor, testified Wednesday in the first public hearings of the impeachment inquiry that one of his staff told him last week that he overheard Trump ask U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland about “the investigations” during a July 26, 2019, phone call. Taylor said, at the time, he was in Ukraine with Trump’s Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker while one of his staffers, reportedly U.S.

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.

The 10-vote difference in the race for the fourth and final Boston City Council at-large seat has now shrunk to five, although city officials said they’re still counting. Eneida Tavares, chairwoman of the Board of Election Commissioners, alerted candidates Julia Mejia and Alejandra St. Guillen about the new tally Wednesday afternoon.

WASHINGTON — President Trump says he and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey are “very good friends,” but their meeting Wednesday at the White House failed to resolve an issue that has badly strained relations between the two NATO allies. Trump and Erdogan concluded a visit without achieving an agreement on Turkey’s decision earlier this year to accept delivery of a Russian air defense system that poses such a threat to NATO security that the U.S.