Trump news: Elizabeth Warren calls for impeachment on Senate floor while reading unreacted Mueller report
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill increasingly call the president 'impeachable' following Robert Mueller's report
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Elizabeth Warren says the US Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump.
The Democratic presidential candidate went to the Senate floor on Tuesday to reiterate her call for impeachment hours after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declared "case closed" on the Russia probe and potential obstruction by the president.
Holding a copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report, Ms Warren responded to Mr McConnell that "wishing won't make it so."
She said that because of a Justice Department opinion that a sitting president can't be indicted, the only way to the hold the president accountable is to initiate impeachment.
Meanwhile, Bill Weld, the Republican former governor and federal prosecutor challenging Mr Trump for their party’s nomination in 2020, says the president is “impeachable” as a result of the Mueller report, attacking his administration’s “brazenness” over the handling of the investigation into Russian collusion.
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Show all 12Democratic contender Eric Swalwell has likewise called for impeachment to remove the “really bad kid in the White House” as Joe Biden surges ahead of nearest rival Bernie Sanders in the opinion polls
Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin has meanwhile refused to release the president’s tax returns to the House Ways and Means committee.
The White House is also instructing former counsel Don McGahn not to comply with a subpoena for documents from the House Judiciary Committee, arguing the materials are subject to executive privilege.
White House counsel Pat Cipollone sent a letter to committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler on Tuesday saying Mr McGahn has been directed not to disclose the documents. The committee requested information about Mr McGahn's interactions with Mr Trump that were provided to the special counsel.
Mr Cipollone says Mr McGahn does not have any "legal right" to the documents because they're under White House control. He says the committee should direct its request to the White House.
She said enough evidence is in the report to try and remove the president. She said, "It's there in black and white in the report."
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Hillary Clinton has also gone after President Trump in recent days, branding the first two years of his first term "deplorable".
The line is a callback to her much criticised assessment of Trump supporters during the 2016 campaign as "a basket of deplorables".
Clark Mindock has more.
China has refused to join nuclear talks with the US and Russia, quashing Donald Trump's hopes for trilateral disarmament negotiations between the globe's major atomic powers.
Here's Samuel Osborne with more.
Democratic rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, recently seen in Knock Down the House on Netflix, has gone after Republican senator Rick Scott on Twitter after he mocked 2020 candidate Cory Booker's proposal for a federal gun registry to rein in mass shootings.
Here's Maya Oppenheim with more.
This might be one of the most ludicrous memes I've ever seen but I can't help feeling it's really nailed something about the Barr-Trump stonewalling of Congress.
The film is of course the classic 1956 sci-fi Forbidden Planet and Robby [Mueller] the Robot is a particularly inspired detail.
In case you missed this yesterday, Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson got in trouble for the below tweet attacking congresswoman Ilhan Omar, posting footage of a rocket siege shot in Ukraine in 2015 and claiming it was Hamas firing on Israel.
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Here's our report.
President Trump has been oft-mocked for his apparent inability to close an umbrella without help from an aide and was recently seen doing battle with one on the steps of Air Force One.
This clip of Barack Obama making expert use of a brolly has been circulating online in recent days.
What a golden age 2015 looks like in retrospect.
Nostalgia for the 44th president is such they're naming streets after him now.
Hawaii's Mazie Hirono was one of the Democratic stars of the grilling of Bill Barr last Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Here she is warning that democracy is in danger under Trump on CNN.
A woman has been arrested after attempting to break into the CIA. Her explanation? She was looking for "Agent Penis".
In the words of legendary BBC football commentator Barry Davies: "You have to say that's magnificent."
Donald Trump does not have any public appearances until 11:00 am local time, when he is expected to attend Melania Trump’s Be Best anniversary celebration.
He is then scheduled to have lunch with Vice President Mike Pence at 12:15 pm in the White House private dining room, an event that is closed to the press.
The president will then participate in a meeting with Republican senators at 3:00 pm in the Cabinet Room, another closed press event.
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