Gabriella Muñoz

Donald Trump accused of witness intimidation after criticizing Marie Yovanovitch as she testified

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff accused President Trump of witness intimidation as Mr. Trump tweeted criticisms of former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch as she testified in the impeachment hearing on Friday.

November 15, 2019

Marie Yovanovitch warns ‘foreign and private interests’ undermined U.S. interests in Ukraine

Former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch said Friday during an impeachment hearing that her ouster from Ukraine because of a smear campaign broadly undermined U.S. foreign policy.

November 15, 2019

Nunes accuses Democrats of ‘Watergate fantasies,’ impeachment case built on ‘rumors’

At a public impeachment hearing Friday, Rep. Devin Nunes accused Democrats of pursuing their "Watergate fantasies." Mr. Nunes, the ranking Republican on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, noted that five Democrats on the committee voted for impeaching President Trump before the Ukraine issue even came to light.

November 15, 2019

Marie Yovanovitch, former ambassador to Ukraine, to testify in impeachment hearing

House Democrats plan to use former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch to humanize the abuse-of-power impeachment case against President Trump, which so far has been a complicated tale of bureaucracy and foreign policy.

November 14, 2019

Kevin McCarthy accuses Adam Schiff of lying about the whistleblower

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy explicitly accused House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff of lying about his knowledge of the whistleblower.

November 14, 2019

Nancy Pelosi says delay of Ukraine aid is bribery

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused President Trump of bribery in pressing Ukraine for investigations.

November 14, 2019

Adam Schiff whistleblower contacts draw GOP ire in impeachment hearings

Rep. Adam B. Schiff, the Democrats' point-man on impeachment, found himself playing defense Wednesday over his interactions with the whistleblower who triggered what's become a major constitutional clash.

November 13, 2019

Bill Taylor dings Trump in otherwise uninspiring impeachment kickoff

The star witness at the first public hearing on impeachment Wednesday said a State Department aide overheard President Trump say he cared more about investigating the Bidens than about Ukraine, providing Democrats the hottest revelation in an otherwise lukewarm kick-off to their impeachment quest.

November 13, 2019

Jim Jordan defends Trump administration aid to Ukraine

Rep. Jim Jordan praised President Trump's commitment to Ukraine, saying he did more than his predecessor President Obama by sending both funds and weapons to aid in the fight against Russia.

November 13, 2019

Republicans slam William Taylor for relying on second-hand information

Republicans criticized Ukraine Ambassador William Taylor Wednesday for not having direct information, pushing the State Department diplomat to admit it during the impeachment hearing that it was possible that second-hand information could be faulty.

November 13, 2019

Republicans try to tamp down on ‘irregular’ channel

Stephen R. Castor, the lead counsel for Republicans, attempted to downplay the seriousness of Ambassador William Taylor's notion of an "irregular channel" led by the president's personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani.

November 13, 2019

Adam Schiff highlights Taylor’s testimony: Trump cared about Biden probe, not Ukraine

Rep. Adam B. Schiff's first question during Wednesday's public hearing in the House Democrats' impeachment probe against President Trump established that investigating the Bidens and corruption was more of a priority to Mr. Trump than Ukraine.

November 13, 2019

William Taylor, State Dept. official, drops quid pro quo bomb at impeachment hearing

A witness at the House impeachment hearing Wednesday revealed that one of his staffers overheard administration officials discussing a quid pro quo in President Trump's dealings with Ukraine.

November 13, 2019

George Kent, House Dems’ star witness for impeachment, homes in on Giuliani

A top State Department official who House Democrats presented as a star witness at the public hearing on impeachment said President Trump's private lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani actively undermined U.S. interests in Ukraine.

November 13, 2019

Public impeachment inquiry opens with fireworks: A search for truth or a ‘smear campaign?’

The House's first public hearing on impeaching President Trump opened Wednesday with dueling views of the effort, which was described as either a search for truth or an "orchestrated media smear campaign."

November 13, 2019

Trump war room launches Pelosi video ahead of impeachment hearing

The Trump "war room" kicked off the defense of President Trump ahead of the first public impeachment hearing Wednesday, releasing a video targeting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

November 13, 2019

Kurt Volker, Tim Morrison and David Hale, GOP-requested witnesses, set for impeachment Week 2

House Democrats announced the lineup for a packed second week of public impeachment hearings, scheduling eight witnesses over the course of three days.

November 12, 2019

Adam Schiff, Democrats take impeachment push public: ‘The process will be fair to the president’

House Democrats will take their historic impeachment hearings in front of television cameras and the public for the first time Wednesday to make the case that President Trump broke the law in dealing with Ukraine, but the president insisted the effort to oust him is "going absolutely nowhere.

November 12, 2019

New complaint filed against impeachment whistleblower

A new complaint from within the U.S. intelligence community alleges the whistleblower who launched the impeachment effort against President Trump is violating federal law by soliciting donations -- $227,000 and counting, with some coming in anonymously -- on a GoFundMe page.

November 12, 2019

Rudy Giuliani-Ukraine ‘irregular channel’ at center of Donald Trump impeachment probe

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani keeps popping up all over the Ukraine impeachment inquiry, but lawmakers can't determine how responsible President Trump is for his fixer, who is a notoriously loose cannon.

November 11, 2019