Both Laura Cooper, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, and David Hale, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, testified Wednesday that they did not hear from President Trump, and they were unaware of any of their colleagues hearing from the president, after he ordered a hold on the aid to Ukraine. That testimony was sparked by a question from Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell, who claimed that if Mr. Trump was so insistent on rooting out corruption in Ukraine... Читать дальше...
During the public impeachment inquiry hearing Tuesday, Democratic Representative Jim Himes asked White House aide Jennifer Williams if she considers herself a "never-Trumper." She said she would not describe herself that way. Himes posed the same question to Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who said: "I'd call myself never-partisan."
Government documents first obtained by the Washington Post reveal that the American people were misled about progress in the war in Afghanistan. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin joined CBSN with more on what the documents show.
David Hale, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, testified that he learned of the hold on aid to Ukraine on July 21, and heard from an official from the Office of Management and Budget that the directive to withhold the money came directly from the president. Hale said he "misspoke" in an earlier deposition, when he said he heard of the holdup in June.
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U.S. Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland confirmed he spoke with President Trump on the phone the day after Mr. Trump's July 25 call with the president of Ukraine. "I have no reason to doubt that this conversation included the subject of investigations," he said.
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Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who is the top expert on Ukraine on the National Security Council, said what he heard on the July 25 call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was "inappropriate." He said he reported his concerns to the top lawyer at the NSC "out of a sense of duty," believing there were "significant national security implications for our country."
New Jersey's Cory Booker is one of five sitting Senators who could be pulled off the presidential campaign trail to take part in an impeachment trial next year. Senator Booker spoke to CBSN's Reena Ninan about the role he would play in an impeachment trial and the state of his campaign ahead of this week's qualifying deadline for the next debate.
U.S. Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland testified Wednesday, "The suggestion that we were engaged in some irregular or rogue diplomacy is absolutely false."
U.S. Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland said Wednesday that Rudy Giuliani demanded Ukraine make a public statement announcing investigations of the 2016 election, DNC server and Burisma. He said Giuliani "was expressing the desires of the president of the United States, and we knew these investigations were important to the president."
The attorney general told NBC News in an interview he believes there were "gross abuses" and "inexplicable behavior" on the part of the FBI in its investigation of ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.
U.S. Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland said Wednesday that he and other U.S. officials did not want to work with Rudy Giuliani on issues related to Ukraine, but were ordered to do so by the president. "Simply put, we were playing the hand we were dealt," Sondland said.
Jennifer Williams, Vice President Mike Pence's special adviser for Europe and Russia, said Tuesday during a public impeachment hearing that she found the July 25 phone call between President Trump and Ukraine's president "unusual because in contrast to other presidential calls I had observed, it involved discussion of what appeared to be a domestic political matter."
California Congressman Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said little about Tuesday's witnesses in his opening statement, and instead began by criticizing the media and its coverage of last week's hearings. Nunes compared media coverage of the impeachment inquiry to coverage of the Russia investigation.
In his opening statement Tuesday, Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff condemned President Trump, saying, "To press a foreign leader to announce an investigation into a political rival, President Trump put his own political and personal interests above the nation."
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During the second day of public hearings in the House impeachment inquiry, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told Democratic Congresswoman Terri Sewell her experience has sent a chill through the diplomatic ranks of the State Department.
Before questioning former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch during the second day of public hearings in the House impeachment inquiry, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee took a swipe at the Democrat-led proceedings. California Congressman Devin Nunes said Yovanovitch "graduated" from "secret" depositions, and he congratulated her on her "performance."
During the second day of public hearings in the House impeachment inquiry, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was questioned about former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden and his role on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas firm. Hunter Biden served on the board of Burisma from 2014 to 2019.
During the second day of public hearings in the House impeachment inquiry, California Congressman Devin Nunes said the Intelligence Committee has become the "House Impeachment Committee" and that the Subcommittee on Human Resources seemed like a "more appropriate" setting for former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch's testimony.
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During the second day of public hearings in the House impeachment inquiry, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch responded to a tweet President Trump posted moments earlier in which he said, "Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad." She said, "I don't think I have such powers."