White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney insisted he never said the Trump administration expected a quid pro quo between U.S. aid to Ukraine and that Kiev launching investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden during a withering interview on "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday responded to acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney’s admission – which has since been walked back – that the White House made aid to Ukraine conditional on political investigations by saying he “never saw that."
White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Sunday said President Trump was "honestly surprised at the level of pushback" against his decision to host the Group of Seven (G-7) summit at one of his resort properties, adding that Trump still "considers himself to be in the hospitality business."
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, blasted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s optimistic assessment of the ceasefire between Turkey and Kurdish forces Sunday, saying Pompeo was in a “parallel, alternate universe.”
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday he did not offer his resignation following a controversial press conference in which he indicated a quid pro quo transaction took place between President Trump and the Ukrainian president.
Rep. Justin Amash (I-Mich.) on Sunday called out President Trump over the administration's decision to move U.S. troops from northern Syria to Iraq, saying that the move conflicts with Trump's repeated calls to bring forces home.
Fox's Chris Wallace said a "well-connected" Washington Republican told him that there's a 20 percent chance enough Republicans will vote to remove the president from office in an impeachment trial in the Senate.
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South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) said Sunday that President Trump’s approach to foreign policy will “cost us for years and years” on the world stage.
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday the House will hold open hearings in its impeachment inquiry into President Trump, though the pace of new revelations made it difficult to predict when that would be.
Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that during the committee’s depositions of State Department officials, it had yet to hear from Ukrainian officials who believed there was a quid pro quo relating to aid to Ukraine.
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg in a Sunday interview expressed discomfort with Hillary Clinton's characterization of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) as a Russian asset.
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