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The U.S. launched airstrikes Thursday night targeting Iran-backed militias in Syria along the Iraq border. Congressman Jim Himes, a Democrat from Connecticut, joins CBSN to discuss the latest developments in Syria, as well as U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia and negotiations on the COVID relief bill and minimum wage on Capitol Hill.
Congressman Adam Schiff, House Intelligence Committee chair and House Manager during the Trump impeachment trial, joined "CBS This Morning" to discuss the attack on the U.S. Capitol and whether he thinks Congress will impeach President Trump before he leaves office on January 20.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff is criticizing President Trump's decision to fire the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Christopher Krebs, saying the president did so because Krebs would not back baseless claims of voter fraud. Rep. Schiff joins CBSN's "Red & Blue" host Elaine Quijano to discuss Krebs' firing, as well as the future of the Democratic Party, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and if he's being considered for a potential role in the Biden administration.
Brian Murphy said he was reassigned from his position at DHS after objecting to drafts of an intel report making Russia's actions appear to be on par with those of Iran and China.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss the explosive new allegations in a book by former Trump administration National Security Adviser John Bolton. He also addresses Bolton's criticism of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
Three House committees have issued a subpoena Monday demanding documents related to Ukraine from Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, as part of the House's impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump. CBSN's Tanya Rivero reports.
House Democrats have subpoenaed President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani for documents related to his interactions with Ukrainian officials. CBS News intelligence and national security reporter Olivia Gazis and CBSN legal contributor Keir Dougall join CBSN's Tanya Rivero with analysis.
After more White House officials refused subpoenas to testify in the impeachment inquiry, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said these obstacles are "not going to delay our work." He accused Republicans of shifting their reasons for opposing the impeachment inquiry against President Trump. On the same day, the impeachment committees released the first transcripts from the closed-door impeachment hearings.
The House Intelligence Committee will hold the first public hearings in the impeachment inquiry next week with open testimony expected from three key witnesses. Chairman Adam Schiff spoke about the hearings at the Capitol.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff outlined the questions at the center of the impeachment probe, then said, "The matter is as simple and as terrible as that." He said the answer to the questions "will affect not only the future of this presidency, but the future of the presidency itself and what kind of conduct or misconduct the American people may come to expect from their commander in chief." Watch his opening statement.
California Representative Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, called the impeachment inquiry "a carefully orchestrated media smear campaign." He said Wednesday that no hearings should take place at all until three questions are answered. Watch his opening statement in the first public impeachment hearing.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and counsel Daniel Goldman spent 45 minutes questioning the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, William Taylor, and State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary George Kent in the first day of public impeachment hearings. Watch this full portion of the hearing.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff set off a confrontation with Republicans at the impeachment hearings Wednesday after telling witness William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, he should be "cautioned" about questions based on "facts not in evidence."
Questioned by Democratic counsel Wednesday, George Kent, deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, testified there is "no factual basis" for allegations that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election, something that has been floated by Trump allies. The U.S. intelligence community concluded it was Russia that interfered in the election.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said that getting rid of U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch "helped set the stage for an irregular channel that could pursue the two investigations that mattered so much to the president" and that "she was considered an obstacle to the furtherance of the president's personal and political agenda."
Congressman Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, criticized Democrats during the second day of public hearings in the House impeachment inquiry. The California lawmaker said Democrats "staged" weeks of closed-door depositions before the hearings "like some kind of strange cult."
California Congressman Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said little about Tuesday's witnesses in his opening statement, and instead began by criticizing the media and its coverage of last week's hearings. Nunes compared media coverage of the impeachment inquiry to coverage of the Russia investigation.
In his opening statement Tuesday, Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff condemned President Trump, saying, "To press a foreign leader to announce an investigation into a political rival, President Trump put his own political and personal interests above the nation."
Congressman Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, asked Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman on Tuesday to identify intelligence community officials with whom he discussed President Trump's July 25 call. Chairman Adam Schiff interrupted Nunes' questioning to curtail the apparent attempt to get Vindman to name the whistleblower.
"In your opening statement, you confirm that there was a quid pro quo between the White House meeting and the investigations into Burisma and the 2016 election that Giuliani was publicly promoting. Is that right?" House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff asked U.S. Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland on Wednesday. "Correct," Sondland replied.
National Security Council expert Fiona Hill explained during her testimony on Thursday why the conspiracy theory that Ukraine, not Russia, was responsible for the 2016 U.S. election interference is false. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff asked Hill how the theory served Russian interests, and Hill responded: "The Russians interests are frankly to delegitimize our entire presidency."
Several Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee chose not to ask National Security Council expert Fiona Hill any questions, instead using their time to speak at length about their view of the impeachment proceedings. "Could I actually say something?" Hill said after Rep. Brad Wenstrup finished speaking. "I think that what Dr. Wenstrup said was very powerful, about the importance of overcoming hatred and certainly partisan division," she said. "I think all of us that came here under legal obligation, also felt that we had a moral obligation to do so. We came as fact witnesses."
The House Judiciary Committee is taking the next step in the impeachment inquiry with a hearing December 4. Chairman Jerry Nadler has invited President Trump and his lawyers to attend, but so far the White House has refused to cooperate. CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang joins CBSN from West Palm Beach, Florida, with the latest developments.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff urged Americans on Tuesday to pay attention to the impeachment inquiry into President Trump's dealings with Ukraine. "This is not about Ukraine. This is about our democracy, this is about our security," he said. Watch his news conference.
The transcripts, 57 in total, include testimony from a spectrum of witnesses, including top officials from the Clinton and Trump campaigns, as well as Obama administration officials.
