House Republicans were hurt by their own witnesses during Tuesday's impeachment hearings:
Democrats and Republicans had two witnesses each: for Democrats, there was Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a National Security Council official who listened in on that fateful July 25 call between Presidentand Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, and Jennifer Williams, a foreign policy adviser to Vice President Mike Pence. The second set of witnesses were former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Kurt Volker and former Trump foreign adviser Tim Morrison, called upon by the Republicans.
The Republicans on the intelligence committee, led by ranking member Devin Nunes, had nothing to combat these accusations. They attacked the media coverage of the impeachment proceedings, the whistleblower and the witnesses themselves, mirroring the blame-game behavior of Trump. The Republicans’ supposed saving graces Morrison and Volker did nothing for the right’s cause. Goldman asked Morrison about a conversation he had with Trump’s ambassador to the EU, Gordan Sondland. Morrison then gave a description of a conversation between Ukranian official Andriy Yerkmark and Sondland:
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