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FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2019, file photo, a White House-released memorandum of President Donald Trump's July 25, 2019, telephone conversation with Ukraine's newly elected president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, released Sept. 25, 2019. There were dozens of ears listening to President Donald Trump’s 30-minute phone call with the leader of Ukraine that is at the center of a House impeachment inquiry, and as many eyes that saw what he said.(AP Photo/Wayne Partlow, File)

Anatomy of the phone call now imperiling Trump’s presidency

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

White House to cut foreign policy staff by nearly half

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 29, 2013, file photo, a worker helps monitor water pumping pressure and temperature, at an oil and natural gas extraction site, outside Rifle, on the Western Slope of Colorado. A Trump administration national security official has sought help from advisers to a think tank that disavows climate change to challenge widely accepted scientific findings on global warming, according to his emails. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Emails: Trump official pressed NASA on climate science

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks as he meets with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Climate threat doubter is leading effort to advise Trump

By KEVIN FREKING and SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks with reporters after his panel voted in a closed session to send more than 50 interview transcripts from its now-closed Russia investigation to special counsel Robert Mueller, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. Two associates of President Donald Trump have been charged with lying to the committee and Schiff said Mueller should consider whether additional perjury charges are warranted. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Adam Schiff hires National Security Council ex-staffers for Trump probe

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., arrives to speak with reporters after his panel voted in a closed session to send more than 50 interview transcripts from its now-closed Russia investigation to special counsel Robert Mueller, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. Two associates of President Donald Trump have been charged with lying to the committee and Schiff said Mueller should consider whether additional perjury charges are warranted. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schiff hires ex-National Security Council staff for panel

By MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press

National Security Adviser John Bolton, left, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, attend a news conference between President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the Rose Garden at the White House, Thursday, June 7, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

WSJ: Trump White House sought strike plans against Iran

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Stopping Rogue States Nuclear Ambitions Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Why Fred Fleitz is the right man for the deputy at National Security Council

By William G. Boykin

National Security Adviser John R. Bolton (right), with White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly (left) and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, named Fred Fleitz to be National Security Council chief of staff, in the face of strident criticism from what conservatives say are left-wing, pro-Obama pressure groups. (Associated Press/File)

Fred Fleitz, John Bolton recruit, in SPLC ‘smear campaign’

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Another top official leaves National Security Council

By CATHERINE LUCEY and KEN THOMAS - Associated Press

A jumbo screen in Tokyo shows President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who have agreed to face-to-face talks about the North’s nuclear program. (Associated Press/File)

White House growing N. Korea team in anticipation of talks

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

The Capitol Dome of the Capitol Building in Washington, Monday, July 17, 2017. The Senate has been forced to put the republican's health care bill on hold for as much as two weeks until Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., can return from surgery. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Derek Harvey joins congressional committee’s Russia probe

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

Records of former National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice that were shipped to a heavily secure archive for Barack Obama's presidential library will eventually be reviewed by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, two high-level sources told The Washington Times. (Associated Press/File)

Susan Rice records that intelligence committee wants are locked in Obama archive

By Dan Boylan and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, gestures while delivering a speech during a rally of supporters a day after the referendum, outside the Presidential Palace, in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, April 17, 2017. Turkey's main opposition party urged the country's electoral board Monday to cancel the results of a landmark referendum that granted sweeping new powers to Erdogan, citing what it called substantial voting irregularities. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

The Latest: Turkish body urges state of emergency extension

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Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland speaks at the Women's Empowerment Panel, at the White House in Washington, in this Wednesday, March 29, 2017, file photo. McFarland, top national security adviser to President Donald Trump, is in line to be U.S. ambassador to Singapore. McFarland’s impending move was confirmed Sunday, April 9, 2017, by a senior administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement hasn’t been made public. The post requires Senate confirmation. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

K.T. McFarland, a Trump national security adviser, in line as next Singapore envoy

By Vivian Salama - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 23, 2017 file photo, White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, left, walks on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Donald Trump removed Bannon from the National Security Council, reversing an earlier controversial decision to give Bannon access to the high-level meetings. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump removes Bannon from National Security Council

By VIVIAN SALAMA - Associated Press

White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is seen in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, in this Feb. 7, 2017, file photo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Steve Bannon says role was to ‘de-operationalize’ NSC after Rice’s tenure

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Sean Spicer listens to a question during the daily press briefing, Thursday, March 30, 2017, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House invites House, Senate intelligence committees to view spy documents

By S.A. Miller and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster listens as President Donald Trump makes the announcement at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Monday, Feb. 20, 2017. McMaster will be the new national security adviser. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump’s new national security adviser a soldier-scholar

By CATHERINE LUCEY and ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Senior Trump appointee fired after critical comments

By VIVIAN SALAMA - Associated Press