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Vindman, who served as director of Eurasia at the NSC, testified that after listening to the July 25 phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy, he went to the NSC lawyer to report his concerns about the call. Specifically, Vindman testified that he thought it was wrong that Trump brought up investigations into allegations of whether Ukraine interfered in the 2016 elections as well as allegations surrounding Hunter Biden’s seat on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company whose executive was being investigated for corruption. Vindman testified that he did

Vindman said one of the times came when he was visiting Ukraine for the newly-elected president’s inauguration in May. “At any point during that trip did Mr.

Nunes asked Vindman during Tuesday’s hearing if he discussed the July 25 phone call “with anyone outside the White House”  and added, “if so, with whom?” Vindman confirmed that he spoke to two individuals who were not in the White House but said they were “cleared U.S.

BLOOMER, Wis. — Marc Boettcher’s day started before dawn, when he fired up the hammer mill that ground up corn for a mixture he fed to the steers in his barn. There was an empty room where he used to milk dairy cows until he sold them a couple of years back, but on a cold morning this summer, much of the barn was full of cattle — curious, anxious, and endearingly weird — who jostled one another to get a look at him. One left him a gift of manure in the drinking trough.

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham on Tuesday claimed that Obama administration aides left behind mean-spirited notes for incoming Trump officials during the transition period in 2017, though she did not provide evidence for the claim and a number of Obama-era officials denounced it as false. In an interview, Grisham told conservative radio show host John Fredericks, “We came into the White House.

Democrats are looking into MORE’s probe, including whether the president misled Mueller, as part of the impeachment inquiry, a House Judiciary Committee counsel told a panel of federal circuit court judges on Monday. House Democrats, who have repeatedly pushed for the urgent release of redacted grand jury materials stemming from Mueller’s probe into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, made the case for the documents’ continued relevance, even as the impeachment inquiry zeroes in on Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.  In arguments before a panel of appellate judges

House Democrats have set up the stage for a jam-packed slate of witnesses in the second week of public hearings of the impeachment inquiry. Over the course of three days, nine witnesses will tell their sides of the story as the House examines MORE and his son, Hunter Biden, as well as 2016 election interference.  The witnesses will testify after U.S. top envoy to Ukraine William Taylor and State Department official George Kent, along with former U.S.