Month: November 2019

Here are the stories our panel of top political reporters will be watching for in the week ahead in this week’s “Inside Politics” forecast. 1. A looming government shutdown? Impeachment may be taking center stage on Capitol Hill, but Congress has a full plate of other issues it needs to address in the coming weeks.

Lawyers trying to save an Obama-era program that defers the deportation of certain undocumented young adults are strategically directing their arguments to one man: Chief Justice John Roberts. They have found ammunition in his own words, from a Supreme Court ruling last June, when he sided with the court’s four liberals to cast the decisive

Fewer than 1,000 US troops will stay in Syria but the objective of defeating ISIS remains in tact despite the smaller US military presence, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said Sunday. “There will be less than a thousand for sure. And probably in the 500ish frame. Maybe six (hundred) but

As the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump barrels through the House on target to potentially finish by Christmas, senators from both parties are reckoning with their own role and are beginning to discuss if they can agree on a set of rules for a trial. If the House of Representatives sends over articles of

The Joker told Batman, “This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object.” That line, from the closing minutes of “The Dark Knight”, is one way to anticipate what will happen on Capitol Hill next week: Public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump begin Wednesday. The unstoppable force? A

Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer will take questions from Iowa voters on Sunday at a CNN town hall hosted by CNN’s Brianna Keilar. The event will take place at 7 p.m. ET and air live across CNN platforms. Steyer is far behind many of his fellow Democratic contenders, polling at just 1% nationally, according to a November

House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff made clear on Saturday that the Ukraine whistleblower won’t be testifying in the impeachment inquiry, arguing that the individual’s testimony would be “redundant and unnecessary.” House Republicans earlier Saturday had submitted a list of witnesses to Democrats that they’d like to testify as part of the chamber’s impeachment inquiry into

In a letter obtained Saturday by CNN, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff goes further than he did earlier today, making clear that that the whistleblower won’t be testifying in public because his/her testimony is “redundant and unnecessary.” Read the letter below.

As the closed-door briefing phase of the impeachment inquiry winds down and moves into the public eye with a slate of hearings scheduled next week, one of the committees that has been leading the inquiry, House Oversight, is ramping up the race for its next chairman. After the death of House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings