Tipsheet: Public opinion polls show shift toward impeaching Trump

View in your browser     Public opinion polls show shift toward impeaching Trump BY JONATHAN EASLEY Public opinion is shifting in favor of Democrats on impeachment, with new polls showing about half the nation supports a House inquiry into President Trump after revelations he pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden. Read the full story here     First House Republican backs impeachment inquiry BY TAL AXELROD Rep. Mark Amodei (R-Nev.) on Friday became the first House Republican to voice support for an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Read the full story here     Support for Trump impeachment rises 12 points in new poll BY TESS BONN A new Hill-HarrisX survey on Friday found support for impeachment proceedings against President Trump has risen 12 points compared to a similar poll conducted three months ago. Read the full story here     Trump's special envoy for Ukraine steps down BY RACHEL FRAZIN President Trump's Special Envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker has stepped down from his post, days after revelations that Trump had pressed Ukraine's government to investigate Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden. Read the full story here       Democrats subpoena Pompeo for Ukraine documents BY RACHEL FRAZIN,SCOTT WONG AND MIKE LILLIS   The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Friday subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for documents relating to the Trump administration's dealings with Ukraine, indicating Democrats are wasting no time diving into the formal impeachment inquiry they launched this week. Read the full story here     Feinstein calls for 'word-for-word' transcript of Trump call at heart of impeachment inquiry BY JORDAIN CARNEY Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said after closed-door briefings with the acting director of national intelligence and the intelligence community inspector general that she wants a "word-for-word" transcript of President Trump's call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Read the full story here     House conservative introduces resolution to censure Schiff BY JULIEGRACE BRUFKE A House conservative has introduced a measure to censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) in an attempt to condemn the Democratic chairman for using "parody" when recounting details of President Trump's call with the leader of Ukraine. Read the full story here     Deutsche Bank reveals it has two individual tax returns tied to House subpoena BY TAL AXELROD Deutsche Bank revealed Friday that it has the tax returns of two individuals who are covered under subpoenas from House committees investigating President Trump's finances. Read the full story here     Democrats sue over North Carolina's congressional maps BY REID WILSON Democrats are headed back to court to challenge the validity of North Carolina’s 13 congressional districts, just weeks after the state’s highest court ruled that the Republican-controlled legislature unconstitutionally gerrymandered state-level maps. Read the full story here     Pentagon chief: Delay in Ukraine military aid didn't affect US national security BY ELLEN MITCHELL Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Friday said that the Trump administration’s delay in sending $250 million in military aid to Ukraine, a move now at the center of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, did not affect U.S. national security. Read the full story here     Intelligence community strikes back — an impeachment game-changer BY KRIS KOLESNIK Opinion | President Donald J. Trump will be impeached. Maybe not convicted by the Senate, but impeached by the House. That’s my prediction, given the rapidly unfolding events in Ukrainegate. The catalyst for impeachment is the alleged CIA whistleblower and the team of intelligence community officials he is going to bat for. Trump picked a fight with the wrong crowd. Now, they’re fighting back, with the Constitution in one hand, and evidence of Trump’s corruption in the other. Game on. Read the full story here     Why Warren is taking the lead BY MERRILL MATTHEWS Opinion | There are reasons why a new Quinnipiac University poll of Democratic voters and Democratic-leaning independents puts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) ahead of former Vice President Joe Biden in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Read the full story here     The Washington Post: Trump told Russian officials in 2017 he wasn’t concerned about Moscow’s interference in election BY SHANE HARRIS, JOSH DAWSEY AND ELLEN NAKASHIMA President Trump told two senior Russian officials in a 2017 Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election because the United States did the same in other countries, an assertion that prompted alarmed White House officials to limit access to the remarks to an unusually small number of people, according to three former officials with knowledge of the matter. Read the full story here     The New York Times: White House classified computer system is used to hold transcripts of sensitive calls BY JULIAN E. BARNES, MICHAEL CROWLEY, MATTHEW ROSENBERG AND MARK MAZZETTI The White House concealed some reconstructed transcripts of delicate calls between President Trump and foreign officials, including President Vladimir V. Putin and the Saudi royal family, in a highly classified computer system after embarrassing leaks of his conversations, according to current and former officials. Read the full story here     CNN: 25 people you should know in Trump's Ukraine scandal BY ZACHARY B. WOLF The fast-moving scandal involving President Donald Trump and allegations that he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate his political rival Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, has upended politics in Washington, DC, and turned Democrats toward an impeachment investigation. Read the full story here     NBC News: Rudy Giuliani's former DOJ colleagues believe he committed crimes in pushing Biden probe BY RICH SCHAPIRO On a Friday in late July, Rudy Giuliani boarded a plane to Spain to meet with an adviser to the Ukrainian president about a plan to investigate Joe Biden. The trip was described in a whistleblower’s complaint. Several former Giuliani colleagues said they believe it should appear in a future indictment. Read the full story here     The Associated Press: US ambassador pressed Ukraine corruption fight before ouster BY BEN FOX AND MATTHEW LEE Months before the call that set off an impeachment inquiry, many in the diplomatic community were alarmed by the Trump administration’s abrupt removal of a career diplomat from her post as ambassador to Ukraine. Read the full story here   Did a friend forward you this email? 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