Government Oversight & Ethics

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee began a new phase of the impeachment inquiry, setting out to show why the president's conduct warrants such a dramatic remedy. Congressman Ted Lieu says, "We cannot allow the president to benefit from his own obstruction of justice and obstruction of Congress."

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Judiciary Committee is moving to the forefront of President Donald Trump's impeachment inquiry, starting with a hearing Wednesday to examine the "high crimes and misdemeanors" set out in the Constitution.

In February, 1974, just as the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry into Watergate was getting under way, John Doar, the inquiry's lead counsel, asked two young staffers to prepare a report.

President Donald Trump on Friday promoted a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election, a day after a former White House adviser called it a "fictional narrative" and said it played into Russia's hands.

Representatives Ted Lieu and Kathleen Rice sent a joint letter on Monday to FBI Director Christopher Wray, urging him to open an investigation into a possible pay-for-play scheme involving the Republican National Committee and President Donald Trump's nominee for ambassador to the Bahamas.

Dozens of Congress members have joined calls for senior White House adviser Stephen Miller's resignation following the revelation of hundreds of emails appearing to promote a white nationalist agenda and anti-immigrant sentiments.

(CNN)House Democrats are publicly holding out hope that historic impeachment hearings will persuade a vast majority of the American public that President Donald Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors — but privately many acknowledge that it's unlikely to happen.