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RSS FeedsWatch live: Trump´s public impeachment hearings underway
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

 
 

13 november 2019 20:11:14

 
Watch live: Trump´s public impeachment hearings underway
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


WASHINGTON - For the first time a top diplomat testified Wednesday that President Donald Trump was overheard asking about `the investigations` he wanted Ukraine to pursue that are central to the impeachment inquiry.William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, revealed the new information as the House Intelligence Committee opened extraordinary hearings on whether the 45th president of the United States should be removed from office.Taylor said his staff recently told him they overheard Trump when they were meeting with another diplomat, Ambassador Gordon Sondland, at a restaurant the day after Trump´s July 25 phone call with the new leader of Ukraine that sparked the impeachment investigation.The staff explained that Sondland had called the president and they could hear Trump on the phone asking about `the investigations.` The ambassador told the president the Ukrainians were ready to move forward, Taylor testified.Not inappropriate, let alone impeachable, countered the intelligence panel´s top Republican, Devin Nunes of California.Trump `would have a perfectly good reason for wanting to find out what happened` if there were indications that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 presidential election, he said.National security officials have told Congress they don´t believe Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election.The hearing Wednesday was the first public session of the impeachment inquiry, a remarkable moment, even for a White House full of them.It´s the first chance for America, and the rest of the world, to see and hear for themselves about Trump´s actions toward Ukraine and consider whether they are, in fact, impeachable offences.An anonymous whistleblower´s complaint to the intelligence community´s inspector general - including that Trump had pressed Ukraine´s president to investigate Democratic foe Joe Biden and Bidens´ son and was holding up U.S. military aid - ignited the rare inquiry now unfolding in Congress.The country has been here only three times before, a ...


 
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