Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor said Friday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” that Russia’s tactical shift is a “big deal,” which shows the “Ukrainians have indeed stopped the Russian advance.”
In a clear attempt to pan Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the news media has been hyping a New York Times oped by Bill Taylor in which the former top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine attempts to lecture Pompeo about why Americans should care about Ukraine.
Republicans’ report clearly outlined how military aid for Ukraine was never linked to investigations that Trump asked Ukraine to undertake.
Gordon Sondland has testified that President Trump told him directly that he wanted “nothing” from Ukraine and “no quid pro quo.”
A plurality of independents are tuning out the impeachment hearings, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Democrats failed to present the public with any evidence that President Donald Trump should be impeached in their first round of public hearings this week, White House Senior Advisor for Strategy Tony Sayegh told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Saturday.
Donald Trump Jr. responded to George Conway’s direct critique during Friday’s public impeachment hearing, calling him out for “routinely” embarrassing his wife for personal gain and slamming him as a “disgrace.”
Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor testified yesterday in the House Democrats’ first public hearing for their impeachment investigation about President Donald Trump and Ukraine.
U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor admitted in the impeachment inquiry that “he has no reason to doubt” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s repeated denials that there was pressure, conditions, or blackmail.
Democrat Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) defended “hearsay” evidence during the first public hearing of the impeachment inquiry on Wednesday.
Democrats have been scrambling following Wednesday’s lackluster public impeachment hearing, changing the focus of their impeachment narrative to “attempted” crimes after Republican lawmakers largely decimated their weak impeachment case.
Democrats are hoping that testimony from the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch on Friday will draw sympathy.
Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY), a member of the House Democrat leadership, said Wednesday that Democrats will move towards impeachment regardless of the impeachment inquiry or Americans’ approval of impeachment.
President Donald Trump did not have much time to watch the impeachment hearings on Wednesday, but he did share one of his favorite moments on Thursday, after catching up on the news.
Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-NJ) dismissed diplomat Bill Taylor’s testimony Wednesday before the House Intelligence Committee as “hearsay.”
House Democrats called in as their first witness in their public impeachment inquiry hearing a U.S. diplomat who allegedly overheard Trump on the phone asking about “the investigations” — what some Trump critics are calling a “bombshell” revelation.
Ukraine was unaware of the American military hold on aid, suggesting a quid pro quo at the center of the probe against Trump would have been impossible at the time.
House Democrats’ first impeachment inquiry public hearing was widely panned as the two career diplomats who testified failed to offer clear allegations of wrongdoing against Trump, and Democrats running the show found themselves on defense in response to the Republicans in the minority who were aggressive and effective in pushing their counter-narrative.
“I hear it’s a joke,” Trump said. “I haven’t watched for one minute because I’ve been with the president which is far more important as far as I’m concerned.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) hammered “star witness” Ambassador Bill Taylor for having only hearsay to condemn Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) desperately tried to portray President Trump’s purported actions as criminal, asking the witnesses if “attempted murder” and “attempted robbery” are crimes in hopes of drawing a parallel to what Democrats claim are Trump’s wrongdoings, which include “attempted extortion and bribery.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) decimated the Democrats’ “star witness” by demonstrating Ambassador William Taylor’s stunning lack of knowledge of the conversation between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (D-CA) used his opening line of questioning to demonstrate the instances of Ukrainian meddling in the presidential election against President Trump and reminded the witnesses – and Democrats on the committee – of former President Obama’s infamous “hot mic” moment with the former Russian president in 2012.
Ambassador Bill Taylor testified Wednesday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told him July 26 that his July 25 call with President Donald Trump had been “fine” and that he was “happy” with it.
The Republican counsel questioned Taylor about whether he could understand that Trump was concerned that some Ukrainians had worked against him in the 2016 presidential election.
Taylor revealed that a staffer, David Holmes, overheard a phone call between the president and the ambassador to the EU that mentioned “investigations.”
Democrats opened public impeachment hearings on Wednesday promising to dramatically detail the case for the president’s impeachment, but there was little excitement in the first 93 minutes.
House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) slammed Democrats for an obvious reprise of the Trump-Russia hoax during his opening statement in the first public impeachment hearing Wednesday morning.
Democrats are moving into the public phase of their impeachment inquiry, beginning with the testimonies Bill Taylor and George Kent.
Democrats have designed the first hour of the impeachment hearing to “be a blockbuster” — if that is all Americans watch.
House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) will call his first witness in the public hearing phase of the “impeachment inquiry” on Wednesday: Ambassador William Taylor, Chargé d’affairs at the U.S. embassy in Ukraine.
GOPs have outlined in a memo ahead of public impeachment hearings four key pieces of evidence they believe undermine Democrats’ assertion.
Schiff on Monday hailed the State Department officials who will testify this week in the impeachment inquiry as courageous and patriotic.
Democrats are shifting their rhetoric ahead of public impeachment hearings, from “quid pro quo” to “bribery” or “extortion.”
The mainstream media rushed to press with the Democrats’ “Cliff’s Notes,” which left out information that directly contradicted Democrats’ assertions.
U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor, during his deposition last month, identified the New York Times as the sole source of his claim that President Donald Trump wanted Ukraine to help him get dirt on Joe Biden.
U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor told impeachment investigators last month that Ukraine did not know the U.S. had temporarily frozen aid at the time of the July 25 phone call, making quid pro quo impossible.
House Democrats on Wednesday afternoon released the transcripts of its interviews with William Taylor, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, as part of their partisan impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump.
CLAIM: Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland confirmed, contrary to earlier testimony, that there had been a “quid pro quo” between President Donald Trump and the Ukrainian government: military aid for “dirt.” VERDICT: FALSE. Sondland said that he “presumed” there
Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor, who provided key testimony to the Democrats’ controversial impeachment inquiry last week, led an election observation delegation in Ukraine earlier this year for a George Soros-funded organization that at the time boasted Hunter Biden on its small chairman’s council.