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White House aides and Trump campaign officials were “freaking out” after being “blindsided” by European Union Ambassador Gordon Sondland’s testimony on Wednesday, which contained allegations of quid pro quo and pointed fingers at the president and other top administration officials, CNN’s Jim Acosta reports.The White House had attempted to get an “early peek” at Sondland’s remarks during the jittery hours before the impeachment hearing began, due to the perception that he was a “wild card” witness, The Washington Post reports. Sondland’s attorney had refused those attempts.It became clear during the testimony, though, that Sondland’s confirmation that “everyone was in the loop” was bad news for Republicans, who pivoted to attempting to distance Trump from what Democrats say was an attempt to pressure Ukraine into digging up dirt on Hunter Biden, the son of his potential 2020 rival. Trump’s campaign specifically zeroed in on Sondland saying that Trump “directly told him he wanted nothing from Ukraine,” although Sondland did confirm that the requests of Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer Rudy Giuliani “were a quid pro quo for arranging a White House visit” for the Ukrainian president, and that “Mr. Giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the United States.”Trump campaign spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany maintained that “over and over we’ve heard from Democrats and the media that the next hearing, the next witness, the next testimony would be the bombshell they’ve been promising, only to have it fizzle out like all the rest. It has happened yet again.” But Ken Starr, the lead prosecutor during the Bill Clinton impeachment hearings, begs to differ: “This obviously has been one of those bombshell days,” he told Fox News.More 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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Turkey’s state-owned Halkbank , which U.S. prosecutors have criminally charged with helping Iran evade sanctions, said it should be able to challenge whether U.S. courts can hear the case at all before it entered a formal plea, according to a court fil…
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The nominee, Dr. Stephen M. Hahn, said the decision to restrict flavors would not be his, if confirmed, because it was already under final review by the White House.
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Prince Andrew is stepping back from public duties. This comes amid backlash for an interview he gave to the BBC about his former association with the late, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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As the Democratic debate kicks off on Wednesday, one town in California is experimenting with a version of universal income that is espoused by candidate Andrew Yang.
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Have you followed Marie Kondo’s advice and thrown out everything in your residence that doesn’t spark joy? Great! Now it’s time to fill your residence back up again — and as long as your shelves are bare, why not buy all that stuff directly from Marie Kondo’s online store?And if you think it’s a little hypocritical for the self-styled de-cluttering guru to sell you a bunch of overpriced junk, we’re sure a sip from your $98 gem-infused water bottle will clear those bad vibes right up. Read more at The Wall Street Journal.More 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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The Navy officer pardoned for war crimes by President Trump is expected to be removed from the SEALs. Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher and three other SEALs could be ousted from the elite force.
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“I didn’t know at that moment that it was [from] 2015,” a U.N. rights expert says. “If I would have known that, I would not have mentioned it, because that’s sometime ago.”
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Democrats might want to shield their eyes from the latest poll from Marquette Law School released Wednesday.President Trump was shown leading all four of the party’s top primary contenders — former Vice President Joe Biden; South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg; and Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) — in head-to-head matchups in Wisconsin, which many analysts regard as one of the most important states in the 2020 election. Last month, three of the four, save for Buttigieg (whose deficit increased) had small leads over the president.> Here’s the new Marquette Law Wisconsin poll: > > Trump 47% > Biden 44% > > Trump 48% > Sanders 45% > > Trump 48% > Warren 43% > > Trump 47% > Buttigieg 39%https://t.co/zhOQbZ8JL3> > — Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) November 20, 2019Of course, like all polls there’s probably not any reason for Democrats to panic, just as there was no reason for Republicans to worry too much about the October survey. With the exception of Buttigieg again, Trump’s leads are all either within in or nearly within the poll’s margin of error or 4.1 percentage points.Biden, meanwhile, was leading the Democratic field among Wisconsin voters with 30 percent of the vote, followed by Sanders at 17 percent, Warren at 15 percent, and Buttigieg at 13 percent.The Marquette Law School poll was conducted between Nov. 13-17. The sample consisted of 801 registered Wisconsin voters who were interviewed over the phone. The margin of error was 4.1 percentage points. Read the full poll here.More 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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The U.S. ambassador to the European Union said all the top leaders in officialdom were “in the loop” throughout the Ukraine affair, broadening its implications well beyond President Trump.
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A veteran diplomat, Mr. Hale will be pressed on the agency’s decision to recall the ambassador to Ukraine after a concerted smear campaign against her.
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