"First, when you have a foreign government helping one of the parties, that's a major problem, and it makes it more difficult," Dean stated. "What [Russian President] Vladimir Putin is trying to do is not so much to support a person, but he's really trying to eliminate any idea of truth. He's attacking the country in a very clear and more dangerous way. He's gone further than they even did during the Cold War. So, these are pretty big problems that we have to figure out how to overcome." ... read more »

Ambassador Gordon Sondland declared to impeachment investigators Wednesday that President Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani explicitly sought a “quid pro quo” with Ukraine, leveraging an Oval Office visit for political investigations of Democrats. But he also came to believe the trade involved much more. ... read more »

“An impeachment process is a viable option for the current House of Representatives given that the hearings will force several people in or close to the Trump Administration to testify before Congress under oath,” said D. Gilson, a writer who has taught popular cultural studies. ... read more »

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 Journalists, political experts, and politicians across the political spectrum are skeptical about President Trump’s meeting with Putin last Monday.  ... read more »

Russian President Vladimir Putin came late to the Helsinki Summit with Donald Trump on Monday and spoke first at the news conference afterward. He handed Trump a soccer ball from the World Cup, but he clearly walked away with the trophy for the World Cup of politics, largely because Trump, in a bizarre and unprecedented performance, kept scoring own goals on Putin’s behalf. ... read more »

“Donald Trump loves to refer to himself as a ‘deal-maker,’ but in reality, his bluster on the world stage over the past week has only isolated the United States from our allies and played right into the hands of two of our most dangerous enemies, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin. ... read more »