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.
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.
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.
Neither acting United States Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor nor Assistant Secretary in the European and Eurasian Bureau George Kent answered Representative John Ratcliffe (R-TX)’s direct question about what was “impeachable” about President Donald Trump’s routine phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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.
Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) forced House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) to address his plan to minimize the voice of Republican lawmakers during Wednesday’s impeachment hearing – by monopolizing the time – forcing the Chairman to address it prior to his opening statement.
Representative John Ratcliffe (R-TX) on Friday pushed back against claims of wrongdoing by President Donald Trump as he discussed the impeachment inquiry.
Friday in the wake of The New York Times report that the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) review into the origins of its Trump-Russia probe has turned into a criminal investigation, Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) accused the Barack Obama administration of utilizing the
The New York Times unwittingly confirmed the veracity of the GOP argument that there could be no quid pro quo because Ukraine did not know the United States had delayed the release of aid for the Eastern European country at the time of the July 25 call.
Some Republican lawmakers said a top U.S. diplomat’s claim that Trump conditioned aid to Ukraine on the country investigating Joe Biden “collapsed” and were ultimately “destroyed” when he was questioned during his closed-door deposition Tuesday.
This has been the cycle since the beginning of Schiff’s Star Chamber: The worst possible testimony is leaked out of context, and it sounds awful — at least until we get the other side of the story, where we inevitably learn that this whole thing is going nowhere.
Tuesday during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) touted Rep. John Ratcliffe’s (R-TX) handling of acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on President Donald Trump’s so-called impeachment inquiry.
Wednesday, Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) shared his reaction to the release of the transcript from President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Ratcliffe said the call proves Trump was not trying to influence Zelensky to investigate former Vice
President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy Fred Fleitz is back in the running for Director of National Intelligence, according to a source.
Friday on CNN’s “Situation Room,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) discussed Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX ) dropping out as President Donald Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence. Hirono said, “He’s contradicting what his intel people are saying, including Dan Coats, the director who
“Our great Republican Congressman John Ratcliffe is being treated very unfairly by the LameStream Media,” Trump wrote on Twitter.
This week, it was announced President Donald Trump had selected Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) to replace outgoing Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats with the hope he would “rein in” intelligence agencies that have “run amok.” In an interview Wednesday
Former CIA Director John Brennan appears none-too-happy with President Donald Trump’s selection for the next Director of National Intelligence, calling Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) a “servile Trump loyalist.”
They told us Robert Mueller was Captain America: Crusader for Truth, and instead we got George Costanza and all the inept deception, sweaty stalling, and blundering dishonesty that comes with him.
Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) eviscerated former Special Counsel Robert Mueller for flouting Justice Department policies as well as the principle of presumption of innocence by declaring he could “not exonerate” Donald Trump of obstruction of justice.
Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) sounded off on House Democrats’ “impeachment garbage” as they continue to hold hearings and subpoena Attorney General William Barr and former White House counsel Don McGahn. Ratcliffe ripped House
In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, explained congressional Democrats were on the offensive over Attorney General William Barr refusal to comply with their demands given
Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) told Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson is in “real legal jeopardy.”
Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page admitted under oath that a text exchange with FBI agent Peter Strzok meant that “it still existed in the scope of possibility that there would be literally nothing” to the Russia collusion story on the eve of Robert Mueller’s appointment to investigate that issue as special counsel, according to a Sunday Fox News report.
In a Tuesday evening appearance on the Fox News Channel’s The Story with Martha MacCallum, Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) said Bruce and Nellie Ohr’s ties to Trump dossier author Christopher Steele were absent from the four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications he analyzed.
A Republican lawmaker says the testimony of former FBI attorney Lisa Page before House investigators differed greatly from her lover and bureau special agent Peter Strzok.
Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ron Johnson (R-WI) said Tuesday an informant has confirmed the existence of a “secret society” inside the FBI working against President Donald Trump.
Federal Bureau of Investigation officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page discussed in text messages a “secret society” set up within the Justice Department and the FBI after the 2016 election, according to two House Judiciary Committee members who have seen the latest release of text messages between them.
During Friday’s GOP Weekly Address, Representative John Ratcliffe (R-TX) stated, “Obamacare is more than just another pile of broken promises. It’s the worst of all worlds. It’s higher costs and fewer choices. It’s less freedom and more government. It’s more
A previously deported illegal alien is now facing federal charges after he allegedly killed a Texas fire captain and two of his children.
A Republican representative from Colorado has introduced a bill in Congress that would make it a hate crime to target a cop just because he or she is a police officer.
Three Republican lawmakers from Texas issued statements on their official websites condemning Sunday’s terrorist attack on a “Draw Muhammad” event in Garland as an assault on freedom of expression.
Six Republican freshmen members of the House of Representatives promised their constituents on the campaign trail they’d vote against Representative John Boehner (R-OH) as Speaker of the House. Five of these freshmen broke their campaign promises and voted “yes” on Tuesday to elect Boehner to a third term as Speaker of the House. In addition to the six who promised their constituents they would vote against Boehner, incoming Republican freshman Alex Mooney (R-WV) broke a Madison Project Candidate Pledge he signed in December 2013 to vote against Boehner.
