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TOP NEWS
The House will vote to impeach Trump today. Here’s how that should play out:
9am: Pelosi speaks before House
10am: Vote on impeachment rules
10:30am - 4:30: Six hours of debate
5ish: Full vote on impeachment
Trump sent an angry, rambling letter to Pelosi regarding his opposition to impeachment. The irony is that if he had to read the letter under oath, he’d be committing perjury. Here’s a fact check.
Giuliani associate Lev Parnas was paid $1 million by Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash, who has been fighting extradition to the U.S. over bribery charges.
Giuliani admits he worked to push out former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovich because she was impeding an investigation into Trump’s political rival, Joe Biden.
Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been hospitalized over a cardiac event since last Thursday.
CVS is being sued by the U.S. government for fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid charges
THE ELECTION
THE COMMENT
“We present you not just with high crimes and misdemeanors but a constitutional crime in progress up to this very minute,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), representing the House Judiciary Committee, testified to the Rules Committee. Referring to Giuliani’s latest boasts, he added that Giuliani, “fresh from his overseas travel looking to rehabilitate once again the discredited conspiracy theories at the heart of the president’s defense, admitted that he participated directly in the smear campaign to oust Ambassador Yovanovitch.”
THE STRANGEST
THE AV ROOM