In Ukraine Phone Call, Alarmed Aides Saw Trouble  —  WASHINGTON — No one bothered to put special limits on the number of people allowed to sit in the “listening room” in the White House to monitor the phone call because it was expected to be routine.  By the time the call was over 30 minutes later …

Trump at private breakfast: 'Who gave the whistleblower the information?  Because that's close to a spy'  —  President Trump expressed disgust Thursday morning with the explosive whistleblower complaint, slamming the intelligence officer and the White House aides who helped him or her as “almost a spy” and suggested it was treason.

Effort to shield Trump's call with Ukrainian leader was part of broader secrecy effort  —  The White House has taken extraordinary steps over the past two years to block details of President Trump's phone calls with foreign leaders from becoming public, following embarrassing disclosures early …

Trump's Attack on Whistle-Blower in Private Meeting Was Caught on Video  —  President Donald Trump used a closed-door gathering with U.S. diplomats to the United Nations to attack Democratic rival Joe Biden and disparage a whistle-blower complaint over his controversial call …

Just How Corrupt Is Bill Barr?  —  Trump's attorney general is implicated in the Ukraine scandal, but refuses to recuse.  —  By now you have probably read the opening of the whistle-blower complaint filed by a member of the intelligence community accusing Donald Trump of manipulating American foreign policy for political gain.

Trump Said His Ukraine Envoy Would ‘Go Through Some Things.’ She Has Already.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's words about Marie L. Yovanovitch, his former ambassador to Ukraine, were ominous.  In a telephone conversation that has set off a political crisis for Mr. Trump, he told Volodymyr Zelensky …

Whistleblower painstakingly gathered material and almost single-handedly set impeachment in motion  —  The whistleblower's identity remains obscured, the details of his work for the CIA cloaked in secrecy.  But the document he delivered reveals almost as much about the investigative mission …

Rudy Giuliani: ‘You Should Be Happy for Your Country That I Uncovered This’  —  When I last saw Rudy Giuliani for lunch, at the Trump International Hotel in Washington four weeks ago, his most pressing concern was that he had been locked out of his Instagram account.

Why the Trump Impeachment Inquiry Is the Only Option  —  THE PEACEFUL TRANSFER of presidential power through free and fair elections is the crowning glory of American democracy.  It concretizes the people's will, conferring legitimacy, assuring stability.  President Trump may have finished second …

Democrats Show Unity On Impeachment; Republicans Show Fractures  —  The loudest GOP voices are trashing the whistleblower, but some Republicans aren't so sure.  —  WASHINGTON ― It's been one week since most of Capitol Hill heard the first reports of a whistleblower …