Laura Cooper, Pentagon official overseeing Ukraine, testifies in impeachment inquiry after GOP delay

The House Parliamentarian ruled that the GOP members were in violation of House deposition rules, according to an Intelligence Committee official.

Laura Cooper, the top Pentagon official overseeing U.S. policy regarding Ukraine, testified in front of House impeachment investigators on Wednesday after a five-hour delay caused by a group of House Republicans who stormed the secure room where the deposition was taking place.

The GOP members — who don’t sit on the committees that are questioning witnesses in the impeachment inquiry — occupied the secure room, known as a SCIF,...