Four Witnesses Testify in Open Impeachment Hearings on Tuesday
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On Tuesday, National Security Council aides Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman and Jennifer Williams, along with former State Department envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker and former National Security Council aide Tim Morrison, testified in the open impeachment inquiries into President Trump.
A left-leaning article by The New York Times highlights revelations from the testimonies of Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman and Jennifer Williams that few members of the government supported holding up security aid to Ukraine. Vindman provided new details about how the reconstructed transcript of the call between Trump and the president of Ukraine ended up in a secure White House server. Both Vindman and Williams stated that they expressed concern about Giuliani’s role in the Ukraine policy.
A centrist article by NPR highlights testimonies from Kurt Volker, former U.S. Special representative for Ukraine, and Tim Morrison, former National Security Council aide. The article reports that Volker changed some key aspects of his closed-door testimony last month, testifying that he remembered that there was discussion about Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani’s investigation of the Bidens. Morrison testified that he was disappointed in the call between the two presidents, expressing that he was “hoping to hear a more full-throated” endorsement of Zelensky’s reform agenda of Trump.
A right-leaning article by Fox News reports that Tuesday’s testimonies highlighted fundamental problems in the case against President Trump, and that recently, there has been more evidence through witness testimonies that could help Republicans. The article reports that in Morrison’s testimony, he stated that the transcript of Trump’s call with Ukraine’s leader on a highly secured computer system was due to an administrative error, not because the president wanted to hide his conversation.