The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, is narrowing the focus of the impeachment inquiry to focus on the Trump-Ukraine scandal, as the White House reels from one of the most tempestuous weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency. Despite Trump’s attempt to discredit the whistleblower, on Friday the White House confirmed a key aspect of the complaint. The fallout from the whistleblower’s complaint and the release of the transcript of the Trump-Zelenskiy call continued on Friday. Maguire said he had initially been blocked by the White House from releasing the complaint to Congress. We used to handle it a little differently than we do now.”Pelosi accused the White House of a cover-up.

Source: The Guardian September 27, 2019 12:17 UTC