4 takeaways from a marathon day three of public impeachment testimony by realchriswilson
The first impeachment hearings of the week brought more bad news for the White House, as two officials who listened directly to a call between President Trump and the president of Ukraine testified they found it unusual, while a witness called by Republicans defended the honor of former Vice President Joe Biden and said calling for an investigation into him was “unacceptable.” But there were elements in Tuesday’s testimony that offered some support to the narrative favored by House Republicans.
Zelensky asked Pence about was the status of the military aid. Williams also did not know the reason why Pence’s trip to Zelensky’s inauguration was canceled. "The culture I come from, the military culture, when a senior asks you to do something, even if it's polite and pleasant, it's not to be taken as a request, it's to be taken as an order," Vindman said."In this case, the power disparity between the two leaders, my impression is that in order to get the White House meeting, President Zelensky would have to deliver these investigations.
Volker initially testified that during a July 10 meeting there was no discussion about Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani's activities in Ukraine or anything about the investigations into Biden. In his amended testimony on Tuesday, Volker said that ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland “made a generic comment about investigations. I think all of us thought it was inappropriate.”
“At the one in-person meeting I had with Mayor Giuliani on July 19, Mayor Giuliani raised, and I rejected, the conspiracy theory that Vice President Biden would have been influenced in his duties as Vice President by money paid to his son,” said Volker. “As I testified previously, I have known Vice President Biden for 24 years. He is an honorable man and I hold him in the highest regard.”"I opposed the hold on U.S.
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