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Article snippet: House impeachment investigators on Friday heard from a new witness claiming first-hand knowledge of obtained by CNN. “So, he’s gonna do the investigation?” Trump asked, according to Holmes's testimony."He’s gonna do it,” Sondland replied.The call, Holmes said, occurred at a restaurant in Kyiv on July 26, one day after Trump's now-famous phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump asked Zelensky for "a favor" in the form of investigations into former Vice President MORE (D-Calif.), a member of the Intelligence Committee, said Friday night as he left the closed-door deposition. "The arrows continue to point in the direction of a shakedown scheme, led by the president of the United States [and] operated by agents like appeared in public before the Intelligence Committee for roughly five hours earlier in the day on Friday. Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, was deposed privately last month, but returned to Capitol Hill as the third witness to testify as part of the public hearing phase of the Democrats' impeachment inquiry.The former ambassador, who was removed abruptly from Kyiv in May, painted a bleak picture of career diplomats fighting to salvage U.S.-Ukraine relations in the face of a shadow foreign policy, led by Giuliani, to secure business deals and political favors at all costs.“How could our system fail like this?" she testified. "How is it that foreign corrupt interests could manipulate our government?” Th... Link to the full article to read more