The White House violated federal law by withholding security aid approved by lawmakers for Ukraine, a nonpartisan congressional watchdog said on Thursday, in a blow for U.S. President Donald Trump as the Senate prepared to hold a trial on whether to remove him from office.
The Democratic-led House of Representatives on Wednesday sent the Senate the two charges it passed last month accusing Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress arising from his dealings with Ukraine, clearing the way for only the third impeachment trial of a president to begin in earnest next week.
Senior writer for National Review and author of First Freedom: A Ride Through America’s Enduring History with the Gun, From the Revolution to Today, David Harsanyi, shares what he felt during Pelosi’s procession with Dan & Amy: