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Impeachment guide: The 9 witnesses testifying this week | TheHill

posted onNovember 19, 2019
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Article snippet: 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. Ambassador to Ukraine MORE, already appeared before the House Intelligence Committee last week. Here’s a guide to this week’s hearings. TUESDAY Jennifer Williams and Lt. Col. MORE The hearings will kick off Tuesday morning with Williams, a foreign service officer assigned to Vice President Pence’s office, and Vindman, the director of European Affairs at the National Security Council. Both listened in on the July 25 call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from the White House Situation Room. Vindman testified behind closed doors last month that “there was no doubt” that Trump was asking Zelensky for the investigations as a “deliverable” condition for a White House meeting sought by the Ukrainian leader. The military officer was so alarmed by what he heard on the call that he reported his concerns to National Security Council legal advisor John Eisenberg.  Vindman also said that the official summary of the July 25 call did not include Zelensky specifically referencing Burisma, the energy company w... Link to the full article to read more

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