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• Amazon accuses the president of interfering in the process over a personal rift with CEO Jeff Bezos. Microsoft won the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract after months of controversy.
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• The president’s third State of the Union address is expected to put forth a vision of “relentless optimism.”
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• Orlando congresswoman Val Demings says she’s honored to be part of the team that will try the impeachment case against President Trump. Demings says as Orlando’s former police chief, she has the experience to be one of the seven impeachment managers.
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• He did the thing. There’s no question he did the thing. Everything that’s happening now – the theatrics and distractions, the pundit nitpicking, and the blatant witness tampering – is noise, a spectacle that should only reinforce what any clear-eyed person who’s been paying attention already knows. President Trump held up $400 million in aid to Ukraine to force them to announce investigations into Joe Biden. This for that. Quid pro quo. To be sure, quid pro quos are the mother’s milk of foreign policy. When Biden, in 2016, threatened to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees from Ukraine unless it removed a state prosecutor viewed as corrupt, that was also a quid pro quo. But Biden acted in furtherance …
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• House Democrats are set to kick off week two of their impeachment hearings on Tuesday with witnesses who listened firsthand when President Trump spoke on July 25 with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
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• Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor and top State Department official George Kent testified in an open hearing Wednesday, the first of many to come in the impeachment inquiry.
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• “The president must be held accountable,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday. “No one is above the law.”
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