Public Impeachment Hearings Begin in the House

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THE QUICK FACTS

• Wednesday was the first day of public impeachment hearings against President Trump in the U.S. House. The day featured testimony from two career diplomats: George Kent, a senior State Department official in charge of Ukraine, and Bill Taylor, the acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.
• Kent told the committee that President Trump's private lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, ran a "campaign to smear" the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, before she was recalled from her post. He testified that Giuliani’s efforts to pressure Ukrainian President Zelensky to open investigations into Mr. Trump’s rivals “had infected U.S. engagement with Ukraine, leveraging President Zelensky’s desire for a White House meeting.”
• In his testimony, Bill Taylor revealed for the first time that members of his staff overheard Trump asking on the phone about “the investigations” of Democrats that he wanted Ukraine to pursue that are central to the impeachment inquiry.
• The public hearings will stretch into next week, and will feature more testimony from current and former officials.

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