| No Images? Click here   Editor's note: We're currently updating our email newsletter system. Over the next few weeks you might run into some problems receiving our newsletters. Check your spam or junk mail folders, or email us at dailybrief@huffpost.com if your newsletters are missing. Thanks, and we apologize for any inconvenience.Ousted Ukraine Ambassador Tells Congress Trump Removed Her Over ‘False Claims’Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, appeared before House impeachment investigators on Friday, telling them that she believed President Donald Trump pushed for her removal on the basis of “false claims,” according to her prepared remarks obtained by The Washington Post.The veteran foreign service officer, who reportedly delivered those remarks in a closed-door deposition, said she was “disappointed” and “incredulous that the U.S. government chose to remove an Ambassador based, as best as I can tell, on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives.”Yovanovitch’s ouster has become a flashpoint in the House’s impeachment investigation into whether Trump abused his power to “advance his personal interests,” as a recent whistleblower complaint said. Congressional investigators are now looking into the administration’s alleged efforts to pressure Ukraine for damaging information about Biden, based on unsubstantiated allegations that he used his power as vice president during the Obama administration to kill an investigation into a gas company on whose board his son served. (In fact, Biden and others pushed the Ukrainian government to remove a top prosecutor for not pursuing corruption cases aggressively enough.)  WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING?Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) may as well have dropped the mic Thursday night after delivering a lippy response to a question about traditional views on marriage. It was a slightly more awkward affair for Joe Biden.Hollywood legend Jane Fonda was arrested alongside other climate change activists outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday after being repeatedly asked to leave.The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a subpoena that House Democrats sent to President Donald Trump’s accounting firm for his financial records and tax returns. The court issued a 2-1 ruling that the House Oversight & Reform Committee has the constitutional authority to investigate wrongdoing by the president of the United States and can therefore subpoena his financial records in pursuit of that investigation.
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