Outside the Beltway

It’s not just Ukraine.

The President’s attorney Rudy Giuliani is among the first to be served with a subpoena in connection with the newly-launched impeachment inquiry.

Even as the impeachment vultures circle, the President is lashing out and making things more difficult for himself.

Public opinion on impeachment has taken a rapid turn that should alarm the Trump White House.

Not surprisingly, President Trump told Russian officials early on that he didn’t care if Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

Trump threatens civil war if he’s removed from office.

The impending impeachment of the President is likely to reveal Republicans on Capitol Hill to be the cowards we already knew they were.

Jake Tapper and Chris Wallace both put Administration surrogates through the ringer on their respective Sunday morning shows.

SNL takes on impeachment and the 2020 Democratic Presidential race.

An empty column with a seed of one good point buried in a bunch of nothing.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky finds himself in he middle of an historic American scandal, and with a new nickname.

Welcome to Donald Trump’s Republican Party.

Not surprisingly, there are other phone call transcripts and other communications that further complicate Trump’s position.

A note in the whistleblower’s complaint suggests other transcripts, like the Zelensky call, that have been buried.

The real crime is what’s legal.

A little bit of this for a little bit of that.

House Democrats are reportedly looking at an impeachment process narrowly focused on the President’s efforts to obtain a quid pro quo from the President of Ukraine.

For the first time, it’s conceivable that Republicans will turn against the President.

The President’s initial reaction to the release of the whistleblower complaint is about what you’d expect from a petty dictator.

The Acting Director of National Intelligence has released the complaint filed by an intelligence community whistleblower that has set off allegations that the President sought foreign aid in undermining a political opponent.

The White House has released a summary of the July 25th phone call between President Trump and the President of Ukraine. It doesn’t help President Trump or his defenders.

Working as the President’s private attorney, Rudy Giuliani has spent months working behind the scenes to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden’s son.

They want to talk to the whistleblower.

A blast from the past: two days before the Zelensky call.

Greg Sargent usefully lays out the basics.

The escalation has been rapid, dramatic, and warranted.

Just days before he repeatedly pressured the President of Ukraine to reopen a closed investigation involving the son of former Vice-President Biden, President Trump suspended military aid that had been authorized by Congress.

President Trump is now admitting that he talked to the President of Ukraine about investigations of Joe Biden and his son but denies there was a quid pro quo.

What we know for sure.

But, our process to elect the president is highly flawed.

The details about President Trump’s attempts to get Ukraine to investigate the son of one of his potential 2020 rivals keep getting worse for the President.

A wrongheaded solution for a legitimate problem.

While some 135 House Democrats have endorsed impeaching the President, most other Democrats on Capitol Hill are not supporting the idea. And neither is Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

While some Democrats are calling for the impeachment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Democrats on Capitol Hill aren’t nearly as eager to go down that road.

Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren are pandering to the base.

A new look at the allegations against Justice Brett Kavanaugh uncovers some new evidence.

The House Judiciary Committee is moving forward on impeachment. Sort of.

Former Republican Congressman and Governor Mark Sanford is running for President.

House Democrats are set to investigate the payoffs made to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels in advance of the 2016 election.

A new poll shows that most Americans want President Trump out of office, but don’t want to see the House impeach him.

As many as twelve candidates for the Democratic nomination may not qualify for the next debate. They should use that as an opportunity to get out of a race they clearly aren’t going to win.

President Trump says he’s thinking about commuting the sentenced of Rod Blagojevich, who has served seven years of the fourteen-year sentence he received for public corruption.

More than half of the House Democratic Caucus has endorsed impeachment, but that’s unlikely to cause Nancy Pelosi to move off her current position.

Future debates among the 2020 Democratic candidates are likely to have fewer participants. That’s a good thing.

The House Democratic Caucus is becoming more divided on the issue of moving forward with impeachment.

The Mueller hearings don’t appear to have moved the needle of public opinion when it comes to impeachment.

The House Judiciary Committee is seeking to obtain the material presented to a Federal Grand Jury by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Wednesday’s Congressional testimony by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller wasn’t exactly a ratings blockbuster.

While much of the talk about Robert Mueller’s testimony has focused on the Trump campaign, there was another part to his testimony that brings attention to a far more serious threat.

Even a Fox News poll finds that the American public finds the President’s recent rhetoric to be racist. There’s a different picture when you look at his supporters, though.