Witness Fiona Hill took on lawmakers in the fifth day of public impeachment hearings, emerging as the latest star. Here's how she scored point after point during more than five hours of close questioning:
WASHINGTON - A British-born U.S. national security expert never lost her cool during hours parrying heated questions from the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee on Thursday, and emerged as the latest star of the congressional impeachment inquiry.
“Can I actually say something?” she eventually asked in her north-eastern English accent after a speech from Representative Brad Wenstrup, an ardent defender of President Donald Trump who was chiding her for her opening statement faulting those who push a false narrative that Ukraine, not Russia, sought to meddle in the 2016 election.
“It is a true story ... It’s one of the stories I occasionally tell because it had some very unfortunate consequences. Afterwards my mother gave me a bowl haircut,” she said, to laughter in the hearing room.Hill, 54, has decades of expertise on Russia and Europe. She was an intelligence analyst under Republican President George W. Bush and Democrat Barack Obama from 2006 to 2009, and joined the Trump administration in 2017.
Hill stressed that she had come to testify to the committee without an agenda, to describe what had happened.
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