WTF Just Happened Today

Friday, January 10, 2020

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1/ Nancy Pelosi will transmit articles of impeachment against Trump to the Senate next week. The trial could begin as soon as next week. The House will also consider a resolution next week to appoint impeachment managers. Trump, meanwhile, said he would "have to" block his former national security adviser John Bolton from testifying in the Senate trial, "for the sake of the office." (New York Times / Washington Post / Politico / NBC News / CNN / Wall Street Journal / Bloomberg / CNBC)

• READ: Pelosi's letter saying she is preparing for a vote next week to send articles of impeachment to Senate. (CNN)

• Sen. Susan Collins said she's been working with "a fairly small group" of Republican senators to ensure witnesses can be called in Trump's impeachment trial. (NBC News / Bangor Daily News)

2/ The operation that killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad was more ambitious and multifaceted than the Trump administration has disclosed. The U.S. military targeted but failed to kill Abdul Reza Shahlai in Yemen, a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force. A senior official said the two strikes were authorized around the same time and that the U.S. did not disclose the Shahlai mission because it did not go according to plan. Defense and State Department officials claimed the strike against Soleimani saved "dozens" if not "hundreds" of American lives from an imminent threat. (Washington Post / Wall Street Journal / New York Times / CNN / ABC News)

• Trump claimed Iran had targeted four American embassies before he ordered the killing of Soleimani. Yesterday, Trump claimed that Iran was "looking to blow up...

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