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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP FACES SCRUTINY FOR JULY PHONE CALL WITH UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT
Democrats moving to interview witnesses,
take other steps in impeachment inquiry
By Jill Colvin
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — House
Democrats are marching for-
ward with their impeachment
inquiry into President Donald
Trump, with more deposi-
tions coming this week.
Democrats are moving
quickly to interview key
witnesses and lock down
information as they explore
the question of whether
the president compromised
national security or abused
his office by seeking dirt on a
political rival from a foreign
country. The probe was
sparked by a whistleblower
who revealed that Trump
asked Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskiy to inves-
tigate former Vice President
Joe Biden and his son Hunter
— potentially in exchange for
military aid money. Trump,
who has defended his conduct
as “perfect,” publicly called on
China last week to investi-
gate the Bidens, too. Calls to
investigate the Bidens have
come without evidence of
wrongdoing by either Biden
in either country.
Trump’s lawyer, former
New York Mayor Rudy
Giuliani, says the calls for
investigations are perfectly
kosher, telling Fox News that
the “president of the United
States has every right to
ask countries to help us in a
criminal investigation that
should be undertaken.”
Meanwhile, the adminis-
tration is continuing to offer
mixed signals as it struggles
to respond to the barrage and
as the president lashes out by
tweet.
What’s coming next:
MORE DEPOSITIONS
Staff and lawmakers from
House Democrats are han-
dling the inquiry.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-
S.C., one of Trump’s most vo-
cal backers, argued that there
was nothing wrong with
Trump’s July conversation
with Zelenskiy. In an inter-
view on Fox News Channel’s
“Sunday Morning Futures,”
he said the accusation look
like a “political setup.”
ry response, telling reporters,
“I always cooperate.” A day
later, however, Trump had a
different answer for the same
question, saying he would
instead leave the matter to
his lawyers.
By Friday he had changed
his tune again, confirming
reports the White House
was preparing a letter to
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
D-Calif., arguing that Con-
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gress cannot undertake an
impeachment investigation
The House committees
without having a formal vote
have requested a slew of
to authorize it. Pelosi has re-
documents from the White
House as well as top officials sisted taking that step, insist-
ing the House is well within
including Pompeo, Giuliani
its rules to conduct oversight
Joe Burbank / Orlando Sentinel-TNS and Vice President Mike
Pence. Pompeo blew a Friday of the executive branch under
President Donald Trump responds to cheering support-
the Constitution.
deadline for complying with
ers during his appearance at the Sharon L. Morris Per-
It remains unclear when or
forming Arts Center in The Villages, Florida, on Thursday. a subpoena, but said over
even if the White House letter
the weekend that the State
Department had sent a letter will be sent — but Democrats
the House Intelligence Com- original intelligence com-
do not appear to be budging,
mittee, the House Oversight munity whistleblower whose to Congress Friday night
even as they insist they have
as its initial response to the
and Reform Committee and
complaint launched the
the needed votes.
request. He also indicated a
the House Foreign Affairs
impeachment inquiry said
“If Speaker Pelosi did in
new willingness to comply,
Committee will continue to
Sunday that a second whis-
saying: “We’ll obviously do all fact move forward with a
hear from witnesses through- tleblower has come forward
out the week. Gordon Sond-
and spoken to the intelligence the things that we’re required floor vote on actually proceed-
ing with an investigation ...
land, the U.S. ambassador
community’s internal watch- to do by law.”
there’s no question in my
Giuliani and Pence have
to the European Union who
dog, further complicating the
mind that she would have
been given until Oct. 15 to
has become a key figure in
president’s case.
the votes,” Rep. Jim Himes of
turn over their documents,
the probe, will be deposed on
Attorney Mark Zaid
Connecticut, the top Demo-
while the White House sub-
Tuesday. And Marie Yovano- said the second person has
crat on the House Intelligence
vitch, the former U.S. ambas- information that corroborates poena deadline is Oct. 18.
Committee, said on CBS’s
Democrats are moving
sador to Ukraine who was
the original whistleblower’s
“Face the Nation.”
swiftly and have said they
recalled from the post early,
complaint about Trump’s
hope to finish the investiga-
will be speaking Friday.
dealings with Ukraine and
WILL MORE
It is uncertain whether two has “firsthand knowledge” of tion in a matter of weeks —
additional figures — George key events. That threatens to perhaps even before Thanks- REPUBLICANS SPEAK
OUT?
Kent, the deputy assistant
undermine arguments made giving.
secretary of state in the Euro- by Trump and his allies that
Sen. Susan Collins, R-
WHITE HOUSE RESPONSE Maine, became just the third
pean and Eurasian Bureau,
the original complaint was
and Ulrich Brechbuhl, a State politically-motivated and un-
Trump has offered a series Republican senator to pub-
Department counselor — will reliable because it was based of contradictory statements
licly question Trump’s con-
be making requested appear- on secondhand or third-hand when it comes to whether or duct when she said over the
ances, after Secretary of State information.
not his administration plans weekend that “it’s not OK”
Mike Pompeo objected to the
But that hasn’t stopped
for a president to encourage a
to comply with the House
timing.
Trump and his allies from
foreign state to investigate a
subpoena.
continuing to try to under-
political rival.
Asked about the prospect
MORE WHISTLEBLOWERS mine the source of the probe, Wednesday, Trump offered an
The others are Sens. Ben
inaccurate, though conciliato- Sasse of Nebraska and Mitt
A lawyer representing the while criticizing the way
Romney of Utah. Romney’s
sharp criticism has sparked a
furious response from Trump,
who took the extraordinary
step Saturday of calling for
Romney’s impeachment after
labeling him “pompous” and
“a fool.” The Constitution
doesn’t call for impeachment
of a senator and Utah’s laws
don’t have a provision for
recalling one.
It appears unlikely many
more Republicans will choose
to choose to take a stand
against the president, who
remains deeply popular with
Republican voters. That’s
something one of the Repub-
licans challenging Trump for
the GOP presidential nomi-
nation, Joe Walsh of Illinois,
called on fellow Republicans
to do.
“This president needs to
be impeached, just based on
what he himself has said,”
Walsh said on CNN. “And
Republicans better get behind
that.”
SLOWER SENATE
If the House does vote
to approve charges against
Trump, it would then be up to
the Republican-led Senate to
decide whether to dismiss the
charges or hold a trial. Some
Senate Republicans have
expressed concerns about
Trump’s interactions with
Ukraine, but there are few
signs there would be enough
discontent to convict.
If Trump were impeached,
it would take a two-thirds
vote in the Senate to con-
vict him and remove him
from office. That has never
happened. Only two presi-
dents have been impeached:
Andrew Johnson in 1868 and
Bill Clinton in 1998; both won
acquittal in the Senate.
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