Article snippet: In what could be the last round of public hearings in the Democrats’ high-speed impeachment inquiry, two senior national security experts testified Thursday that MORE had pressed for investigations in Ukraine that were designed to help him politically. David Holmes, a State Department veteran now based in Kyiv, and Fiona Hill, Trump’s former leading adviser on Russian affairs, testified for almost six hours on Capitol Hill, where they painted a damaging portrait of Trump and his allies clamoring for the launch of foreign-born probes that appeared to lack a national security objective. Holmes described an episode in Kyiv in July when he overheard a phone conversation between Trump and MORE. “I've never seen anything like this in my foreign service career,” he said. Hill, who left her post voluntarily over the summer, voiced similarly dire concerns that Trump, through personal lawyer MORE, threatened “to blow up” years of foreign policy objectives in Kyiv in pursuit of personal political interests. And she dismissed the GOP’s argument that the investigation is a politically motivated “witch hunt.” “If the president or anyone else impedes or subverts the national security of the United States in order to further domestic political or personal interest,” she said, “that is more than worthy of your attention.” The combination appeared to lend new momentum to the Democrats investigating Trump, as many in the party are hoping to stage a vote on impeachment articles b... Link to the full article to read more