(CNN) A clarifying week in Washington showed how ugly the war of oversight between President Donald Trump and House Democrats will become and dug new battle lines in the most intense exchanges yet of the 2020 campaign. House Democrats swung their investigative machinery into action in the most searching examination of the Trump White House so far, showing that the special counsel's probe is only one of the President's concerns. In his State of the Union address, meanwhile, Trump laid out his clearest thematic blueprint yet for his re-election bid. Trump sought to paint Schiff's move as the kind of "ridiculous, partisan investigations" he had decried in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. He accused New York Democrats of passing state legislation that would allow "a baby to be ripped from the mother's womb moments before birth."

Source: CNN February 09, 2019 05:05 UTC