Members of Congress are talking about impeachment as they visit their home districts this weekend. Some are doing so voluntarily. Others can't avoid the topic.
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, about the text messages between American and Ukrainian officials that were released earlier this week.
Congressional investigators are demanding documents from the White House, Vice President Pence and the State Department. So far, they've had little success.
Campaign finance lawyers believe the request to Ukraine's president that he investigate Joe Biden and his family broke the law. But the FEC lacks a quorum, and the Justice Department sees no crime.
An NPR analysis finds the president's use of heated phrases such as coup, treason, enemy of the people and corrupt media jumped considerably beginning in March. October is on pace to set a record.
In his phone call with the president of Ukraine, President Trump disparaged the former U.S. ambassador in Kyiv. NPR's Scott Simon asks retired U.S. diplomat Nancy McEldowney about that.
Every time President Trump is accused of some wrongdoing, he first denies it. But faced with irrefutable evidence, he goes all in, either on Twitter or in a live press event.
At a labor conference in California, Democratic presidential candidates tried to focus on non-impeachment news, but it's still overshadowing everything else.