Pressure is intensifying on Democratic House speaker Nancy Pelosi to launch impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump.
An increasing number of Democrats - and even a Republican congressman - are openly calling for the measure in response to the Mueller report's findings and the Trump administration's refusal to submit documents to congressional investigations.
Mr Trump on Wednesday sabotaged a planned White House meeting with Ms Pelosi on infrastructure, and said he would not work with Democrats until all probes into him were closed.
Quite the shot:
Trump's private notes on impeachment caught on camera
US president uses handwritten talking points as aid during 10-minute diatribeHere's what Nancy Pelosi is saying behind closed doors about Trump:
Hard not to have seen this coming:
Trump administration halts Harriet Tubman $20 bill
Democrats lash out at treasury secretary as he announces delay to currency redesignA bank CEO, Stephen Calk, has been indicted for approving loans for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, hoping to get a job in the administration.
According to NBC News:
"As alleged, Stephen M. Calk abused the power entrusted to him as the top official of a federally insured bank by approving millions of dollars in high-risk loans in an effort to secure a personal benefit, namely an appointment as Secretary of the Army or another similarly high-level position in the incoming presidential administration," Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said in a statement.
Reports have emerged that Donald Trump walked out on a meeting with Nancy Pelosi and others yesterday.
Mr Trump now says he was calm and chill during that meeting, nothing to see here:
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A senior Democrat in the House has suggested increasing numbers of his colleagues expect Donald Trump to be impeached.
Many in the party have resisted calls for proceedings to be initiated, with many suggesting that doing so would aid the president's repeated and unsubstantiated claims that he is the victim of a "deep state" conspiracy.
But John Yarmuth, chairman of the House budget committee, said: “I think what we have … is we have a situation in which I think a growing majority of our caucus believes that impeachment is going to be inevitable.
Another Trump issue vexing Democrats is the president's reported plan to pardon former US service members who have been accused of war crimes.
Pete Buttigieg, a rising Democratic presidential candidate, has just spoken out against the alleged plan.
Here's more detail about those possible pardons, and the outrage it is provoking.
The Trump administration plans to use a loophole and rising tensions with Iran to sell bombs to Saudi Arabia, even though Congress blocked such sales for months over concerns about civilian deaths in the war in Yemen, senator Chris Murphy has said.
"I am hearing that Trump may use an obscure loophole in the Arms Control Act and notice a major new sale of bombs to Saudi Arabia (the ones they drop in Yemen) in a way that would prevent Congress from objecting. Could happen this week," Mr Murphy warned on Twitter.
Congressional aides said there are provisions of the Arms Control Act, which sets rules for international arms transactions, that would allow a president to approve a sale without congressional review in case of a national emergency.
In this case, they said Mr Trump would cite rising tensions with Iran as a reason to provide more military equipment to Saudi Arabia, which he sees as an important US partner in the region. Mr Trump has touted arms sales to the Saudis as a way to generate jobs.
Mr Trump previously declared an influx of immigrants a national emergency to bypass Congress and get $6bn to build his wall along the Mexican border. Both Democrats and his fellow Republicans voted to block the move, forcing Mr Trump to issue the first veto of his presidency.
It was not immediately clear what equipment would be sold to Saudi Arabia or when any sale might go ahead.
Donald Trump Jr has falsely claimed in an interview with his father's favourite TV show, Fox & Friends, that Democrats want something "beyond" socialism.
On Wednesday evening, the House Oversight Committee reached an agreement with Mr Trump's attorneys to seek an expedited appeal in a court case in which lawmakers are seeking the president's financial records from his accounting firm.
A US judge ruled on Monday that the Mazars accounting firm must turn over the documents to the House Oversight and Reform Committee, but the president had appealed the decision.
The panel said in a statement that under the schedule, written arguments could be submitted as early 12 June, with briefings completed by July. The court has yet to approve the accelerated schedule.
A story which was lost a bit over the weekend, ProPublica has accused the Trump White House of using taxpayer money to pay for alcohol drank by Trump staffers at Trump's private club, Mar-a-Lago.
Also notable about Mr Trump renewed attack on Rex Tillerson is that the president has claimed he only hires "the best people". Indeed, Mr Trump was full of praise for his former secretary of state until their relationship started to sour.
Now he's simply "dumb as a rock".
Donald Trump has now turned his fire on Rex Tillerson, who yesterday testified to congress the president was less prepared than his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for a 2017 meeting between the pair in Germany. The former secretary of state said it left US officials at a disadvantage.
Democratic congressman Ted Lieu has sent a letter to attorney general Bill Barr asking to read the unredacted Mueller report in light of Donald Trump's claims he is the "most transparent president" in history.
Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren and influential congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have teamed up to ask Trump's treasury secretary some awkward questions about his role in the closing of thousands of Sears department stores, and the subsequent job losses in the tens of thousands.
The US attorney general, accused by critics and experts of attempting to protect Mr Trump during his response to the Mueller report, has been photographed dining at Trump Tower.
This is a nickname unlikely to stick.
Donald Trump has just tweeted for the first time today. In the posts include a number of false and misleading claims.
Democrats in fact attended a meeting yesterday to negotiate over an infrastructure spending package - Mr Trump stormed out after about three minutes.
The president's description of a "fishing expedition" by House committees also falls wide of the mark; the Mueller report uncovered dozens of instances of behaviour by the president and his associates which could potentially constitute either crimes or misdeeds.
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