Article snippet: The top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine on Wednesday offered a long and intricate account of MORE’s “highly irregular” foreign policy in Kyiv, providing new details of the episode — ones that appeared to boost Democrats’ case — in the first public hearing of their impeachment inquiry. House Democrats left the open hearing buzzing about the new developments provided by William Taylor, U.S. chargé d'affaires for Ukraine, during his nearly five-hour appearance on Capitol Hill. In measured and detailed testimony, Taylor more strongly tied Trump to the push for investigations meant to benefit the president, revealing that a member of his staff overheard a conversation between Trump and U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland the day after the president’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The staffer said Trump was interested in the news on “the investigations,” Taylor testified, referring to the probes sought by MORE and 2016 election interference. Sondland replied that the Ukrainians “were ready to move forward,” he said. Taylor said that after the conversation, the staffer asked Sondland what the president thought about Ukraine, to which the diplomat replied: “President Trump cares more about the investigations of Biden.” Taylor had not relayed that episode during his closed-door deposition on Oct. 22 because, he said, he simply wasn’t aware of it. The news quickly prompted Democrats to summon Taylor’s staffer to testify, as well. In... Link to the full article to read more