FOX NEWS — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, reacted Sunday to the fact that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has not yet transmitted the articles of impeachment to the Senate saying, "I think this is a sign of weakness." Cruz made the statement on "Sunday Morning Futures" adding, "This is a sign she [Pelosi] understands just how weak these articles are. These articles of impeachment that they actually voted on were really an admission of failure."... (more)

NEWSMAX — The withholding of the House articles of impeachment from the Senate before a trial is the latest abuse of power by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the pursuit of sowing discord in President Donald Trump, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's response to a reporter's impeachment question has many wondering about her shockingly incoherent answer. While she was answering questions from the media Thursday, one reporter seemingly threw Pelosi for a loop with a simple statement.... (more)

THE BLAZE — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has thus far obstructed the impeachment process by delaying the transfer of two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, which passed in the House this week, to the Republican-controlled Senate.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel accused Democrats of conducting a three-year "smear campaign to invalidate the will of the American people." Her comments came in a Wednesday tweet as House members debated President Donald Trump's impeachment.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Harvard law professor Noah Feldman, who testified for the Democrats during the impeachment inquiry, said if the House "does not communicate its impeachment of President Donald Trump to the Senate, it hasn't actually impeached the president."... (more)

THE EPOCH TIMES — Former Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz responded to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) possibly withholding articles of impeachment from the Senate and argued that she doesn't have the power she thinks she has. "Whether the House wants it to be in the Senate or not, the matter is now properly before the Senate," Dershowitz told the Republican National Lawyers Association, according to the Daily Caller. "The presiding officer of the Senate can set a trial date, convene the chief justice and begin the trial. So I don't think that Pelosi has the power that she thinks she has, or that my colleague Larry Tribe thinks she has."... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — U.S. Attorney John Durham is investigating John Brennan's role in the 2016 election, calling for the former Obama CIA director's emails, call logs and other documents, according to the New York Times. Durham is examining how the intelligence community assessed Russia's 2016 election interference, according to three people briefed on the inquiry.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Several key players in the origins of the Russia investigation might want to contact their lawyers following Attorney General William Barr's appearance this week on Fox News, political analyst Gregg Jarrett suggested Thursday night on "Hannity." "I would have my criminal lawyers on speed dial," Jarrett told host Sean Hannity, "because [Barr] made it pretty much clear he is going after not just the intel agencies but private actors."... (more)

J.D. GORDON — Ever since Donald J. Trump was elected to Make America Great Again, the self-declared #Resistance has terrorized him and many innocent Americans. Yet while they liken themselves to the French Resistance of the 1940s fighting Nazi occupation, or even more fancifully to Star Wars, the part of French history they most resemble is 150 years earlier, never mind that galaxy far, far away.... (more)

YOUTUBE — In a historic speech Thursday on the Senate floor, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell described "partisan rage" – rather than rational, deliberative process – as the driving force behind House Democrats' impeachment of President Donald Trump Wednesday, which the GOP leader repeatedly characterized as "rushed," "thin," and "weak." He called the three-year-long process that began before the president took office an "impeachment in search of articles" and said the past 12 weeks have been "the most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern history." Citing compelling factual and historical evidence, McConnell made clear the Senate has a duty to reject House Democrats' "toxic new precedent that[, if not repudiated,] will echo well into the future."... (more)

BREITBART — The top Senate Republican is denouncing the "unfair" House impeachment of President Donald Trump and reassuring Trump and his supporters that "moments like this are why the United States Senate exists." Sen. Mitch McConnell, in remarks prepared for a Thursday floor speech, accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of being afraid to send "their shoddy work product to the Senate" after she threw uncertainty into the impeachment process by refusing to say when she would send two impeachment articles to the Senate for a trial.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set the stage Thursday for a potentially bruising fight between the leadership of the two chambers over impeachment, as he tore into Nancy Pelosi for "shoddy work" and said Democrats may be "too afraid" to send the articles to the Senate after the House speaker abruptly held off on transmitting them.... (more)

ANDREW MCCARTHY — I'll confess: Last night, when I was first told that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was toying with the idea of not delivering the two articles of impeachment voted by the House against President Trump, I assumed it was a joke. For these last weeks, the Democrat-dominated chamber has been in a mad rush to impeach the president. Democrats even tacked on article two – "obstruction of Congress" – because, they told us, time could not be wasted engaging in the usual negotiation and litigation over legislative demands for executive branch information. Trump is a clear and present threat to "continue" undermining our elections, we were admonished. That's why he needs to be impeached right now. That's why the political class cannot responsibly leave his fate up to the sovereign, the People, who will vote in November.... (more)

POLITICO — Rep. Jeff Van Drew on Thursday formally became a Republican, pledging his "undying support" for Donald Trump as the ex-Democrat sat next to the president in the White House. "I believe that this is just a better fit for me," the New Jersey lawmaker said, following a meeting with Trump on Thursday afternoon. "This is who I am."... (more)

NEW YORK POST — It is said there are two things you should never watch being made: sausage and government budgets. Now we can add impeachment to the list of stomach-turning sights to avoid. The arcane rules, phony cordiality and debates over the second sentence in paragraph G of Point Six were bad enough, but the nausea meter hit the roof when Nancy Pelosi took the microphone. Wearing a funereal black dress, she stood next to a cardboard American flag and recited the Pledge of Allegiance.... (more)

NEW YORK POST — Nancy Pelosi shot down cheers from her own party with a stare and a hand gesture as she gaveled in the passage of the first article of impeachment against President Trump Wednesday night. As she announced the Democrats had garnered 230 "yea" votes on the article accusing Trump of using his office for personal gain, jubilant Democrats began to cheer and clap.... (more)

BYRON YORK — After rushed and intense proceedings into the Ukraine affair, the House has voted to impeach President Trump. The vote was 230 to 197 for the first article of impeachment charging the president with abuse of power and 229 to 198 for the second article charging him with obstruction of Congress.... (more)

TWITTER — The President is not going to be removed from office – period. The House's action is nothing more than a political sham – one that the vast majority of Oklahomans and I are sick and tired of. My full statement:... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz clarified Wednesday that his investigation into the FBI's FISA abuses "did not reach" the conclusion that the bureau was unaffected by political bias during its 2016 Russia investigation.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — In a rare public order issued Tuesday, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court condemned the FBI for the errors and omissions in its application to surveil Trump-campaign adviser Carter Page and gave the bureau until January 10th to propose reforms to prevent future abuses. The order follows the release of Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report, which detailed 17 "significant errors and omissions" in the warrant application to surveil Page.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — To grasp the weakness and poverty of the Democrats' impeachment effort, you don't need to listen to the Republican responses. You simply need to read the impeachment articles themselves. They tell the story of a party that was always planning to impeach President Trump and which has now settled on intentionally vague and airy charges. Why? Because Democrats are preemptively trying to avoid political accountability for what they are about to do.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The FISA Court is "culpable" in the Russia "madness," and should be "ended," says Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif. "We need a process, OK," Nunes told Fox News' Martha McCallum on "The Story" when she asked whether he agreed with Fox judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano that the court should be eliminated.... (more)

JOAN SWIRSKY — There is nothing new about the fanatical hatred of Jews that we see playing out in today's world -- literally a pandemic of anti-Semitism which echoes the fear and loathing that gave rise to the over-4,000-year history of the Inquisition, the Crusades, centuries of pogroms, the expulsion of Jews from country after country, and the Holocaust of the 20th century in which six-million Jews were savagely incinerated in the crematoria of Hitler's Germany, as the entire world -- including U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt -- looked on and did nothing!... (more)

DAILY SIGNAL — The vote by the House Judiciary Committee Friday to adopt two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump makes it clear that Democrats are moving full speed ahead on the road to impeachment--regardless of the merits of their accusations or the integrity of their process.... (more)