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The inspector general whose firing was disclosed in a letter to Congress defended on Sunday his handling of a whistleblower complaint that led to President Donald Trump’s impeachment, NBC News reports.

Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said Wednesday he’s assembled a bipartisan group of senators calling on President Donald Trump to provide a “detailed written explanation” for the removal of the inspector general who flagged the Ukraine whistleblower complaint, NBC News reports.

President Donald Trump is suggesting that he fired the inspector general for the intelligence community in retaliation for impeachment, saying the official was wrong to provide an anonymous whistleblower complaint to Congress as the law requires

Former White House communications director Nicolle Wallace talks about her experience covering the 2020 elections.

The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who provided chilling testimony during the Trump impeachment hearings has a book deal

President Donald Trump has ousted the Pentagon’s top policy official who had certified last year that Ukraine had made enough anti-corruption progress to justify releasing congressionally authorized aid

House Democrats frustrated over the Senate’s acquittal of President Donald Trump are pushing their oversight efforts toward the Justice Department.

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at Donald Trump’s retaliation against impeachment witnesses after the president’s acquittal last week.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is calling on the nation’s 74 inspectors general to ensure government whistleblowers are protected.

Exacting swift punishment against those who crossed him, an emboldened President Donald Trump ousted two government officials who had delivered damaging testimony against him during his impeachment hearings. The president took retribution just two days after his acquittal by the Senate. First came news Friday that Trump had ousted Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the decorated soldier and national security aide…

U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman provided testimony critical of President Donald Trump during the House impeachment inquiry.

President Donald Trump delivered payback Friday to two key witnesses who testified in the House impeachment inquiry, firing Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, and removing Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman from his White House job. Both officials provided critical information about Trump during public hearings, with Sondland saying the president sought a “quid pro quo” with...

To help keep you informed on the most shared and talked about stories, each Saturday and Sunday we’ll revisit five stories from the previous week, including the most recent updates. The U.S. Senate acquitted President Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress on Wednesday. The outcome was not unexpected. Democrats in the Senate unanimously voted...

Elizabeth Warren’s path to victory may have to go through fellow progressive Bernie Sanders. And after Sanders’ strong showing in Iowa, that path became far more difficult heading into Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.

President Bill Clinton apologized. President Donald Trump said, “It was all bullshit.” Two modern-day presidents were impeached and acquitted and their reactions were polar opposites. Trump on Thursday, the morning after the U.S. Senate cleared him on two impeachment counts, was defiant and confrontational, praising the Republicans who voted to acquit and attacking Democrats as “vicious and mean.” Trump...

The Senate’s impeachment trial of President Donald Trump shifted the votes of some independent voters, but most Americans were driven even deeper into their political corners by the sessions, according to an LX and Morning Consult poll released Friday. The survey, conducted during the final 24 hours of the quickest impeachment trial in U.S. history that ended in a...

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at the president’s reaction to being acquitted by the Senate.

A day after his acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial, President Donald Trump made celebratory remarks in the White House on Feb. 6, thanking many Republican politicians and repeating several false and misleading claims, many of which we’ve checked before.

Exulting in his impeachment acquittal, President Donald Trump took a scorched-earth victory lap Thursday, unleashing his fury against the “leakers and liars” who tried to remove him from office while looking ahead to his reelection campaign.

President Donald Trump embraces victory and denounces Democrats during an annual gathering with religious leaders, one day after his acquittal on impeachment charges. NBC’s Tracie Potts reports.