Away News I m David for Republicans have been straining to contain the fallout over former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton s upcoming book even as President Trump s impeachment trial continues in the Senate A.P. s Saager may Ghani has more Bolton writes he personally heard President traumatized withholding aid to Ukraine for investigations of Joe Biden Democrats like Adam Schiff say Bolton should be subpoenaed to testify the president s impeachment trial to further proof wrongdoing you can erase all doubt the president s calling the book nasty and untrue wild also saying it has classified national security material the White House has told Bolton s lawyer that information cannot be published g.o.p. Leaders have told senators Cawley Bolton could set off a long legal fight and delay the president s expected acquittal deputy White House counsel Padfield and also warned that this institution will be effectively paralyzed for months on end Saager Magni Washington
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President Trump s defense team continues making its case to the Senate that the president did nothing wrong that would warrant his removal from office a.p. Correspondent Jackie Quinn against the backdrop of new revelations about the draft of a book from former national security advisor John Bolton President Trump s defense team was presenting a case against Hunter Biden who took a lucrative job on the board of Ukrainian energy company then law professor Alan Dershowitz testified nothing the president did meets the level of criminal activity the constitutional framers Invision you cannot turn conduct that is not impeachable into impeachable conduct simply by using words like quid pro quo he says even if John Bolton testifies that President Trump was withholding aid until Ukraine agreed to investigate the Bidens that would not constitute an impeachable offense President Trump denies Bolton s account while a few Republican senators are suggesting they may want Bolton to testify in the im
This is the way to find. President Trump legal team wrap up its present Pete Peterson trial today before the u.s. Senate could be Correspondent Jackie Quinn with details once the defense is finished senators will have 16 hours to pose questions for each side they re expected to vote later this week on whether to call witnesses an idea getting new interest with claims revealed in an upcoming book from former national security advisor John Bolton that president did withhold aid to get Ukraine to investigate rival Joe Biden but constitutional scholar Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz says they don t need Bolton nothing in the Bolton revelations even if true would rise to the level of an abuse of power but House impeachment manager Adam Schiff says we now have a 3rd witness who is apparently a direct witness to the president s timing of military age investigations for Republican senators would have to defy party leadership to vote in favor of calling witnesses Jackie Quinn Washington
This is the news I m Arisa Melton the director general of the World Health Organization is in China to meet with government officials and health experts trying to contain the spread of a deadly controversy that has killed 81 people the spread of the illness is being watched around the globe Reuters Jason Albano has more airports around the world are ramping up screening measures of Chinese passengers though its effectiveness has been questioned by health officials some foreign governments are working to evacuate their citizens from all Han France said its evacuees will spend 14 days in quarantine to stop the possible spread of the virus also on Sunday Chinese officials confirm that the ability of the new virus to spread is getting stronger and that infections could continue to rise no deaths have been reported outside of China from the virus so far Reuters Jason Albano reporting sports fans around the world are struggling to find words to describe how they feel about the sudden death