Headline Roundup • November 21st, 2019
Fiona Hill, David Holmes Testimonies End Week of Impeachment Hearings
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Fiona Hill, the former top Russia expert on the National Security Council, said President Trumpās demands for Ukraine to announce investigations into former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the 2016 elections amounted to a ādomestic political errandā that diverged from American foreign policy goals.
Her testimony made it clear that Dr. Hill, a longtime Russia expert, saw the pressure campaign on Ukraine as a purely political effort that had nothing to do with confronting corruption in Ukraine, the explanation that Mr. Trump and Republicans have frequently given for...
Former National Security Council aide Fiona Hill clashed with Republicans during Thursdayās Trump impeachment inquiry hearings after accusing some lawmakers of embracing the āfictional narrativeā that only Ukraine -- and not Russia -- interfered in the 2016 elections, igniting a fierce response.
The testy proceedings at the Capitol also included testimony from David Holmes, a U.S. State Department official in Ukraine, who described how he overheard a phone call this summer with President Trump about wanting Ukraine to conduct political investigations.
Holmes testified that he eventually understood that ādemandā to...
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The former top Russia adviser at the White House at impeachment hearings Thursday criticized one of Rep. Devin Nunesā defenses of President Donald Trump, calling the congressmanās repeated assertion that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election a āfictional narrative.ā
āSome of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country ā and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did,ā Fiona Hill testified. āThis is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security...
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