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Ngtk Nancy Pelosi slams Steve Mnuchin for wasting lawmakers time during classified briefing
Washington mdash; The House released the transcript Monday from the closed-door testimony of David Holmes, a State Department official who overheard a recently revealed call that has become key to the impeachment inquiry against President Trump. Holmes will testify later this week.In his opening statement, Holmes said he overheard Mr. Trump ask a top diplomat about the status of investigations into his political rivals on July 26 mdash; one day after stanley cup his now-infamous July 25 call with the president of Ukraine.The existence of this July 26 call was revealed last week by William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine who testified in public on Tuesday. Holmes, who is Taylor s aide, corroborated Taylor s account. It provides further support for the accusation that Mr. Trump committe stanley cups d a politically charged quid pro quo and withheld U.S. aid from Ukraine to pressure the foreign country to launch investigations that could help his reelection campaign. I ve never seen anything like this, someone calling the president from a mobile phone at a restaurant, and then having a conversation o stanley cup spain f this level of candor, colorful language. There s just so much about the call that was so remarkable that I remember it vividly, Holmes testified on Capitol Hill behind closed doors last week. Read the full text of Holmes testimony here: Holmes said he was sitting near Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, at a restaurant in Gtcg Trump appears to back away from some campaign promises
AP Former U.S. Chief of Protocol Donald Ensenat, who served in that post for most of President Bush s 8 years in office, says the Secret Service is being made the scapegoat in the party crasher incident.Ensenat is seen at left with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2004.In an e-mail to CBS News, Ensenat blames the Office of the White House Social Secretary for not having staffers with the invitation list at each of the access checkpoints for g stanley becher uests. Ensenat thinks it s the Social Secreta termo stanley ry s job to have refused entry to anyone not on the guest list. The Secret Service are not bouncers, writes Ensenat. Their job is security which they perform superbly putting their life on the line everyday. In prior administrations, it has been standard practice for staffers from the Social Office to be physically present at access checkpoints to provide guidance to the Secret Service. But ultimately, it s the responsibility of the Secret Service to ensure that individuals not on the guest list are not permitted entry to the White House. And Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan acknowledged this in his public statement last Friday. 5780962 That failing is ours, he said of the ability of Michae stanley thermobecher le and Tareq Salahi, at left, to be admitted to the State Dinner last Tuesday, even though they were not on the guest list. Our internal investigation have determined established protocols were not followed at an initial checkpoint, verifyi
Washington mdash; The House released the transcript Monday from the closed-door testimony of David Holmes, a State Department official who overheard a recently revealed call that has become key to the impeachment inquiry against President Trump. Holmes will testify later this week.In his opening statement, Holmes said he overheard Mr. Trump ask a top diplomat about the status of investigations into his political rivals on July 26 mdash; one day after stanley cup his now-infamous July 25 call with the president of Ukraine.The existence of this July 26 call was revealed last week by William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine who testified in public on Tuesday. Holmes, who is Taylor s aide, corroborated Taylor s account. It provides further support for the accusation that Mr. Trump committe stanley cups d a politically charged quid pro quo and withheld U.S. aid from Ukraine to pressure the foreign country to launch investigations that could help his reelection campaign. I ve never seen anything like this, someone calling the president from a mobile phone at a restaurant, and then having a conversation o stanley cup spain f this level of candor, colorful language. There s just so much about the call that was so remarkable that I remember it vividly, Holmes testified on Capitol Hill behind closed doors last week. Read the full text of Holmes testimony here: Holmes said he was sitting near Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, at a restaurant in Gtcg Trump appears to back away from some campaign promises
AP Former U.S. Chief of Protocol Donald Ensenat, who served in that post for most of President Bush s 8 years in office, says the Secret Service is being made the scapegoat in the party crasher incident.Ensenat is seen at left with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2004.In an e-mail to CBS News, Ensenat blames the Office of the White House Social Secretary for not having staffers with the invitation list at each of the access checkpoints for g stanley becher uests. Ensenat thinks it s the Social Secreta termo stanley ry s job to have refused entry to anyone not on the guest list. The Secret Service are not bouncers, writes Ensenat. Their job is security which they perform superbly putting their life on the line everyday. In prior administrations, it has been standard practice for staffers from the Social Office to be physically present at access checkpoints to provide guidance to the Secret Service. But ultimately, it s the responsibility of the Secret Service to ensure that individuals not on the guest list are not permitted entry to the White House. And Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan acknowledged this in his public statement last Friday. 5780962 That failing is ours, he said of the ability of Michae stanley thermobecher le and Tareq Salahi, at left, to be admitted to the State Dinner last Tuesday, even though they were not on the guest list. Our internal investigation have determined established protocols were not followed at an initial checkpoint, verifyi