READ: House impeachment investigators release first transcripts

President Donald Trump at the White House, Oct. 24, 2019. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

READ: House impeachment investigators release testimony of Marie Yovanovitch and Michael McKinley

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The release of the transcripts marks the first time the public will see testimony from the closed-door hearings

11/04/2019 13:23 EST

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani(2ndL) attends the signing of HR 1327, an act to permanently authorize the September 11th victim compensation fund by US President Donald Trump during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, July 29, 2019. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Rudy Giuliani met with former Ukrainian diplomat Andriy Telizhenko last week: report

Shira Tarlo

Telizhenko has alleged that Ukraine conspired with the Democratic National Committee to hurt Trump in 2016

11/04/2019 12:15 EST

Donald Trump and Paul Manafort (Yana Paskova/Joel Lerner/Getty Images/Salon)

Trump’s obsession with Ukraine has deep roots: Is it all a cover-up for his 2016 crimes?

Heather Digby Parton

Mueller documents reveal that Paul Manafort pushed Ukraine conspiracy theory on Trump during the 2016 campaign

11/04/2019 08:25 EST

US President Donald Trump disembarks after arriving on Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, September 26, 2019, after returning from New York. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

How Trump will try to derail impeachment

David Cay Johnston

Following the "Roy Cohn playbook," he will delay, lie, destroy evidence, attack patriots … anything to save himself

11/04/2019 04:00 EST

US President Donald Trump speaks as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky looks on during a meeting in New York on September 25, 2019, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

Kellyanne Conway says she doesn’t know if there was a quid pro quo on Ukraine

Matthew Rozsa

White House adviser Kellyanne Conway told CNN she doesn't know "whether aid was being held up and for how long"

11/03/2019 14:00 EST

Rep. Louie Gohmert and Sen. Rand Paul (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Republicans go lower: They’re publicly spreading the name of purported Ukraine whistleblower

Igor Derysh

Rep. Louie Gohmert dropped the name during a public hearing while Rand Paul shared it with millions on Twitter

11/02/2019 06:00 EDT

Tucker Carlson and Adam Schiff (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

Fox News host Tucker Carlson invokes Adam Schiff’s “bodily fluids” in bizarre rant about impeachment

Igor Derysh

"For Schiff, today’s vote was thrilling, in ways that only a court-appointed psychiatrist could fully appreciate"

11/01/2019 13:38 EDT

Mitch McConnell warns Trump to stop attacking GOP senators who will decide his fate

Igor Derysh

Trump called Mitt Romney a "pompous ass." Mitch reminded him Romney will be a juror in Trump's impeachment trial

11/01/2019 07:00 EDT

President Donald Trump speaks to the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, before boarding Marine One for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and then on to Florida. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Robert Reich: 6 ways Trump has sold out America

Robert Reich

Robert Reich says that Trump's putting himself first, not the country — here's how

11/01/2019 06:30 EDT

Devin Nunes; Adam Schiff (AP/Photo by Salon)

Republicans target Adam Schiff, aim to expose whistleblower in desperate effort to protect Trump

Sophia Tesfaye

As Republicans retreat on impeachment, they fling mud at Schiff and try to get whistleblower's name on the record

11/01/2019 06:00 EDT

Trump Jr. complains of alleged double-standard to Sean Hannity: “I wish my name was Hunter Biden”

Matthew Rozsa

“Because my name is Trump, if I take $1.5 dollars from China — not $1.5 billion . . . their heads would explode”

10/31/2019 18:31 EDT

Lev Parnas (L) and his wife Svetlana Parnas depart federal court following an arraignment hearing on October 23, 2019 in New York City. Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, along with Andrey Kukushkin and David Correia, are associates of Rudy Giuliani who have been arrested for allegedly conspiring to circumvent federal campaign finance laws in schemes to funnel foreign money to U.S. candidates running for office at the federal and state levels. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Giuliani henchman named company ‘Fraud Guarantee’ to hide fraud allegations on search: report

Igor Derysh

The indicted Giuliani associate allegedly tried to game Google results so his name was depicted in a "positive" way

10/31/2019 17:11 EDT

Joe Biden and Bill O'Reilly (Jamie McCarthy/Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Bill O’Reilly says Joe Biden should be impeached as soon as he becomes president

Matthew Rozsa

O'Reilly and Sean Hannity pushed the bogus conspiracy theory that Biden had a prosecutor fired to protect his son

10/31/2019 16:01 EDT

Sen. Joni Ernst, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, and Sen. Thom Tillis (Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla/Alex Wong/Salon)

Press Watch: Republicans in Congress can’t handle the questions — and reporters are finally noticing

Dan Froomkin

So far Republicans have avoided answering direct questions about Trump's conduct. Time for press to push back

10/31/2019 15:00 EDT

Matt Gaetz and Nancy Pelosi (Alex Wong/ /Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

Be careful what you wish for, Republicans: Now impeachment starts for real

Amanda Marcotte

Republicans demanded a more public impeachment process. Well, here it comes — and they're not gonna like it

10/31/2019 12:30 EDT

Donald Trump’s war against democracy: Is it already too late to save America?

Chauncey DeVega

Democrats are finally fighting back. But Trump's assault on reality and the rule of law can't be easily undone

10/31/2019 06:00 EDT

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili/Alex Wong/Getty Images/Salon)

NSC official Alexander Vindman’s testimony appears to contradict Rick Perry’s claims about Ukraine

Igor Derysh

Vindman claimed that Perry was at a meeting where the Biden probe was discussed, which Perry has repeatedly denied

10/30/2019 16:52 EDT

Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for his confirmation hearing to be the new U.S. ambassador to Russia, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. President Donald Trump's nominee faced questions about Russian election interference and the ouster of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine at his Senate confirmation hearing. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump’s Russia ambassador pick breaks with president on Ukraine call

Shira Tarlo

Soliciting probes into a domestic political rival is "not in accord with our values," John Sullivan said

10/30/2019 16:26 EDT

White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney (AP Photo/Evan Vucci/Twitter)

White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney learned about ISIS raid from Trump’s tweet: report

Igor Derysh

Obama's chief of staff was front and center during the Osama bin Laden raid, but Mulvaney was sitting at home

10/30/2019 13:46 EDT

Is Trump just too dumb to do crimes? Here’s why that defense won’t fly

Amanda Marcotte

Trump doesn't need to be a stable genius to get away with this stuff. He has the whole Republican Party behind him

10/30/2019 13:29 EDT

Former National security adviser John Bolton walks up to the podium to begin speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

State Department official to testify Bolton warned about Giuliani’s influence on Ukraine: reports

Shira Tarlo

Bolton warned that Giuliani's influence over Trump's views on Ukraine "could be an obstacle," the official will say

10/30/2019 12:45 EDT

U.S. Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks as Chairman of House Intelligence Committee Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) listens during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol October 15, 2019 in Washington, DC. Pelosi said she is holding off on a full House vote to authorize an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Trump slams “impeachment hoax” as Democrats prepare to formalize inquiry procedures

Shira Tarlo

House Democrats are expected to vote Thursday on a resolution establishing the procedures of the impeachment probe

10/30/2019 12:31 EDT

National Security Council Director for European Affairs Alexander Vindman arrives for a closed-door deposition at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on October 29, 2019. - A White House official plans to tell Congress Tuesday that he witnessed efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate President Donald Trump's rival Joe Biden, and that he reported it as a national security risk. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman will be the first White House official to testify to the House impeachment inquiry that Trump and allied diplomats improperly pressured the Ukraine government to open investigations designed to help Trump politically. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Republicans admit that Vindman’s testimony was “damaging” in private: report

Bob Brigham

“The GOP reaction to Vindman comes as the party faces frontal attacks on two of its major talking points"

10/30/2019 10:00 EDT

Donald Trump with transcripts of his phone call with the President of Ukraine (AP Photo/The White House/Salon)

Vindman says partial transcript of Trump’s Ukraine call “omitted crucial words and phrases”: report

Cody Fenwick

The incomplete transcript itself is damning evidence of President Donald Trump’s misconduct

10/30/2019 08:00 EDT