The president mused in an interview about scrapping the practice less than a year after one such call led to his impeachment.

In a rare moment of introspection, the president talks about the personal toll the months-long impeachment battle has taken on him.

President Trump said Thursday he may end the practice of having national security and foreign service staff listen in on his calls with foreign leaders after a July call with the president of Ukraine triggered his impeachment in the House.Trump...

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer called on Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Thursday to speak out against President Trump's attacks on the federal judiciary in the controversy over former Trump ally Roger Stone.

The New York Democrat said Mr. Trump has fired key witnesses in the impeachment process ...

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he might end the long-running practice of letting other administration officials listen in on presidential calls with foreign leaders. “I may end the practice entirely,” Trump told Geraldo Rivera in a radio interview that aired Thursday. Trump also offered new insights into his feelings about being impeached, saying it made him think about the “dark" days when Richard Nixon resigned over the Watergate scandal before his own likely impeachment.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that Attorney General William P. Barr's involvement in the Roger Stone case "deeply damaged" the justice system, but nothing he's done merits impeachment.

Mrs. Pelosi accused Mr. Barr, who she's called a "rogue" attorney general, of lying to Congress and the public, but she ...

President Trump on Thursday accused the lead juror in the case against his longtime associate Roger Stone of "significant bias," just as Democrats are casting the president's comments on the Stone case as an attempt to influence the Justice Department and constitute an obstruction of justice."Now it looks like the fore person in the jury, in the Roger Stone case, had significant bias. Add that to everything else, and this is not looking good for the 'Justice' Department," Trump wrote in a tweet.The juror in question, Tomeka Hart, posted Wednesday on Facebook that she “can’t keep quiet any longer” about the Justice Department's criticism of the seven-to-nine years sentence prosecutors recommended for Stone, who was convicted of lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstructing the House’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s connections to Russia.After Trump complained Tuesday on Twitter that Stone's recommended sentence was a “horrible and very unfair situation,” the Justice Department submitted a revised filing stating that the prosecutors’ recommended lengthy sentence “could be considered excessive and unwarranted.”“It pains me to see the DOJ now interfere with the hard work of the prosecutors,” Hart wrote in her post, in which she identifies herself as foreperson of the jury. “They acted with the utmost intelligence, integrity, and respect for our system of justice.”Hart is a former Democratic congressional candidate, a fact she disclosed during the public pretrial jury selection process. The former Memphis City Schools board president ran in the 2012 Democratic primary in Tennessee's 9th district, losing by a wide margin to incumbent Democratic Representative Steve Cohen.Hart's social media accounts are also filled with negative commentary about Trump, including a tweet that refers to Trump as “KlanPresident,” an apparent reference to the Ku Klux Klan. She also shared a Washington Post opinion piece titled, "What’s so extremely, uniquely wrong about Trump’s presidency" and shared praise for the Mueller investigation, which eventually resulted in Stone's arrest.Senator Lindsey Graham on Thursday weighed in the reports of Hart's potential bias, urging the court to take the allegations seriously."If media reports are accurate - about juror bias in the Roger Stone case - I hope the Court will take such allegations seriously," Graham wrote in a tweet.Stone was convicted by the jury in November, and his sentencing is scheduled for February 20.Speaker Nancy Pelosi called trump's commentary on Stone's case a "abuse of power" in her Thursday press conference and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) said Wednesday that attorney general William Barr should "resign or face impeachment" over his alleged intervention in the sentencing.

Eric Swalwell says impeaching Donald Trump for his potential interference in Roger Stone's sentencing is not "off the table" as congressional Democrats prepare to hear from administration officials about the apparent "erosion of independence" inside the Department of Justice.The California Congressman and member of the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees told CNN that members of Congress "don't wake up in the morning wanting to impeach him" though the president has been "learning the wrong lessons" from his acquittal by the Senate, ​even after Republican allies admitted the president's wrongdoing following his impeachment in the House on charges of abuse of power and obstruction in his dealings with Ukraine and subsequent congressional investigation.

Kelly defended fired impeachment inquiry witness Alexander Vindman and criticized Trump’s policiesThe former White House chief of staff John Kelly has backed the fired impeachment inquiry witness Alexander Vindman, launching a spirited defense of the former National Security Council official and criticizing the Trump administration across a range of issues.Kelly, a retired four-star Marine Corps general, told an audience at Drew University in New Jersey on Wednesday evening that Vindman was simply following the training he had received as a soldier when he flagged his concerns about Donald Trump’s phone conversation with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, last summer.“He did exactly what we teach them to do from cradle to grave,” Kelly said. “He went and told his boss what he just heard.” Kelly’s comments were first reported in the Atlantic.Vindman, a Ukraine policy specialist, complied with a congressional subpoena and spoke out about hearing Trump tie US military aid for Ukraine to an agreement by Zelinskiy to investigate Joe Biden, Kelly said.Trump responded abrasively, tweeting: “He came in with a bang, went out with a whimper, but like so many X’s, he misses the action & just can’t keep his mouth shut, which he actually has a military and legal obligation to do.”He added: “His incredible wife, Karen, who I have a lot of respect for, once pulled me aside & said strongly that John respects you greatly. When we are no longer here, he will only speak well of you.’ Wrong!”In his address, Kelly spoke of Trump’s Ukrainian phone call.“Through the Obama administration up until that phone call, the policy of the US was militarily to support Ukraine in their defensive fight against … the Russians. And so, when the president said that continued support would be based on X, that essentially changed. And that’s what that guy [Vindman] was most interested in.”But when Vindman heard Trump tell his counterpart he wanted to see the Biden family investigated, he understood he was hearing an “an illegal order”, Kelly said.He said: “We teach them, ‘Don’t follow an illegal order. And if you’re ever given one, you’ll raise it to whoever gives it to you that this is an illegal order, and then tell your boss.”The former chief of staff also criticized the president’s attacks on certain media outlets – which Trump has often accused of being “fake news” and sought to sideline or restrict access to the White House – saying he did not view the media as “the enemy of the people”.“The media, in my view, and I feel very strongly about this, is not the enemy of the people. We need a free media,” he said, according to the Daily Record.Kelly continued: “That said, you have to be careful about what you are watching and reading, because the media has taken sides. So if you only watch Fox News, because it’s reinforcing what you believe, you are not an informed citizen.”Kelly also questioned Trump’s intervention in the case of Eddie Gallagher, the Navy Seal convicted of posing with the body of a dead Isis fighter. Trump quashed Gallagher’s demotion and then ordered the navy to drop the revocation of his special forces status, leading to the resignation of the navy secretary, Richard Spencer.The intervention, Kelly said, “was exactly the wrong thing to do. Had I been there, I think I could have prevented it.”Kelly said he took issue with Trump’s policies in a number of key areas. He said migrants to the US are “overwhelmingly good people” and “not all rapists” – a reference to comments Trump made about Mexican immigrants in 2015.“In fact, they’re overwhelmingly good people,” Kelly said. “They’re not all rapists and they’re not all murderers. And it’s wrong to characterize them that way. I disagreed with the president a number of times.”Trump’s border wall, he added, doesn’t need to extend “from sea to shining sea”.Kelly’s 75-minute address also touched a number of international topics. He said he considered the administration’s efforts to convince North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, to abandon the country’s nuclear weapons program hopeless.Kelly said: “I never did think Kim would do anything other than play us for a while, and he did that fairly effectively.”Asked why he had accepted the White House position, Kelly said he didn’t know Trump before 2016, but had been “fascinated – not necessarily in a good way – but fascinated as to what that election meant to our country”.When he was approached to become secretary of homeland security, he said, his wife urged him to accept the position. “I, frankly, think he needs you and people like you,” she told him.