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(Bloomberg) — Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. After almost two years of negotiations and escalations — and plenty of false dawns — trade negotiators from the U.S. and China are makin…
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In what is becoming common practice for the Trump administration, Vice President Mike Pence’s office responded critically Wednesday to an impeachment witness’ public sworn testimony while a hearing was ongoing.Pence’s Chief of Staff Marc Short released a statement denying U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland’s claim that he brought up concerns he had that U.S. military aid to Ukraine was “tied to investigations” directly with Pence in September. That would mean Sondland directly discussed a potential quid pro quo with the vice president.Short said that the “alleged discussion recalled by Ambassador never happened” and that Sondland was “never alone with” Pence while the two were on a trip to Warsaw, Poland, in September, when Sondland testified the conversation took place. > Marc Short, the chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, just released a statement contradicting Sondland’s sworn testimony ImpeachmentHearing pic.twitter.com/TrDosITSHl> > — Bloomberg TicToc (@tictoc) November 20, 2019More stories from theweek.com Ken Starr on the Sondland testimony: ‘It’s over’ Putin says the Ukraine scandal has distracted the U.S. from Russian election meddling: ‘Thank God’ Sondland just obliterated Trump and put the entire White House in peril
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Ken Starr, the former solicitor general who headed the investigation that led to the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton, called Wednesday’s testimony by U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland “obviously … one of those bombshell days.”Speaking on Fox News, Starr agreed with the hosts that things now do not “look good for the president substantively.” Sondland’s testimony, Starr said, confirmed that there was a quid pro quo between Trump’s administration and the Ukrainian government — which would be “bribery,” in the jargon of impeachment. Sondland also said that the orders to push Kyiv to open an investigation into Trump’s political rivals had come directly from the Oval Office.Starr focused specifically on the question of Trump’s alleged contempt, noting that Sondland had spoken “vehemently and bitterly about his lack of access to records to help him.” Additionally, the Democrats’ line of questioning made clear that Sondland’s attempts to refresh his memory for the testimony had been denied by the administration, which could build the Democrats’ case for obstruction.”There will be articles of impeachment,” Starr said. “I think we’ve known that, it was just confirmed today. Substantively, what we heard from the chairman just now is: It’s over. We now know — this is his position — we now know that the president in fact committed the crime of bribery.” Watch below. > Ken Starr on Fox News: “It doesn’t look good for the president, substantively.” pic.twitter.com/kDBdx0DapS> > — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 20, 2019More stories from theweek.com Putin says the Ukraine scandal has distracted the U.S. from Russian election meddling: ‘Thank God’ Sondland just obliterated Trump and put the entire White House in peril White House and Trump campaign officials are reportedly ‘freaking out’ about Sondland’s testimony
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As a cold rain fell on a suburb of Iran’s capital on Wednesday, women swallowed by black chadors and men in green military-style jackets walked alongside the flag-draped coffin of a Revolutionary Guard member, one of over 100 people reported to be kill…
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The United States ambassador to the European Union delivered explosive testimony to the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.
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The attorney for a Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead captive in Iraq says the Navy is trying to remove the special operations chief from the elite fighting force in retaliation for President Donald Trump restoring his rank. Defense attorney Ti…
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Days to Brexit deadline: 72(Bloomberg) — Sign up here to get the Brexit Bulletin in your inbox every weekday.Today on the campaign trail: Boris Johnson reveals tax cuts, and the Lib Dems make a £50 billion case for remaining in the EU.What’s happening…
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Right before a much needed 10-minute break, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), revealed quite a bit about how U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland’s public impeachment testimony was playing out with just one look. Hint: it’s not going super well. > when it’s going great pic.twitter.com/HeL6qRKipv> > — Kathryn VanArendonk (@kvanaren) November 20, 2019> quick someone throw the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme over this https://t.co/jgPPIVe4Ld> > — Sam Adams (@SamuelAAdams) November 20, 2019More stories from theweek.com Ken Starr on the Sondland testimony: ‘It’s over’ Putin says the Ukraine scandal has distracted the U.S. from Russian election meddling: ‘Thank God’ Sondland just obliterated Trump and put the entire White House in peril
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(Bloomberg) — Emmanuel Macron has spent weeks rubbing European Union allies the wrong way. Germany has finally had enough.Angela Merkel, usually measured, deployed the full power of her words on Wednesday night to say she would exert intense pressure …
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Fox News is reeling after the opening hours of testimony from Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union and a key figure in the Trump administration’s alleged effort to pressure Ukraine’s government to investigate the Bidens. Sondland confirmed Wednesday morning that the Trump administration partook in a “quid pro quo”, and pointed his finger directly at the president.”This, on its face, is very damaging to some of the arguments the GOP has been making,” Fox News host Bret Baier confirmed after the opening round of Democrats’ questioning. “I think it’s going to be fascinating to see, in cross-examination, how they go.”Fox News’ Chris Wallace also didn’t have a positive spin for the network’s viewers. Sondland “took out the bus and ran it over President Trump, Vice President Pence, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, Rudy Giuliani, Mick Mulvaney,” Wallace said. “He implicates all of them.”Sondland had repeatedly stressed that everybody in the administration was “in the loop” about efforts to push Ukraine into announcing an investigation into the Bidens. Watch the response on Fox, below. > Fox News host Bret Baier says Sondland’s testimony is “very damaging to some of the arguments the GOP has been making.” pic.twitter.com/M6SE2s8z74> > — TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) November 20, 2019More stories from theweek.com Ken Starr on the Sondland testimony: ‘It’s over’ Putin says the Ukraine scandal has distracted the U.S. from Russian election meddling: ‘Thank God’ Sondland just obliterated Trump and put the entire White House in peril
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U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland just testified that Ukraine’s president was pushed to announce investigations President Trump wanted, but not necessarily to actually open them. Sondland testified as part of the impeachment inquiry into Trump, which is examining whether the president improperly pressured Ukraine into making a public announcement about the opening of investigations involving former Vice President Joe Biden and the 2016 election. A key defense from Trump has been that he was simply interested in getting Ukraine to investigate corruption, not damage his political rivals. But Sondland suggested in his testimony that Trump was seemingly less concerned about the investigations actually being conducted than he was with the investigations being announced. “He had to announce the investigations,” Sondland said, referring to what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had to do to get a White House meeting. “He didn’t actually have to do them, as I understood it.”Sondland expanded on this later in the testimony by saying he never heard “anyone say the investigations had to start or had to be completed,” and that the “only thing” he heard “was they had to be announced in some form.” Sondland did add that the “way it was expressed to me was that the Ukrainians had a long history of committing to things privately and then never following through,” suggesting Trump’s motivation for seeking the announcement may have been so that Ukraine would, in fact, have to conduct them. Still, Sondland’s emphasis on the importance of the announcement itself could also suggest Trump was primarily interested in publicly damaging his potential 2020 opponent. The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake observed, “This COMPLETELY undermines the idea that this was actually about corruption — in case there was any doubt.” > “[Ukrainian President Zelensky] had to announce the investigations. He didn’t actually have to do them, as I understood it,” US Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland said in his testimony. https://t.co/DH5rvycKLR pic.twitter.com/KJ9EM2Jn0s> > — CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) November 20, 2019More stories from theweek.com Ken Starr on the Sondland testimony: ‘It’s over’ Putin says the Ukraine scandal has distracted the U.S. from Russian election meddling: ‘Thank God’ Sondland just obliterated Trump and put the entire White House in peril
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