Yesterday, Republicans on Capitol Hill faced difficult questions about President Trump’s actions, after explosive testimony by the top American diplomat in Ukraine provided the most damning account to date in the impeachment inquiry. Let us in!” shouted dozens of House Republicans, as they pushed past the doors of the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, a basement room in the Capitol where a Defense Department official had arrived Wednesday morning to testify in the inquiry. Once inside, nearly 30 conservatives yelled, tweeted and ordered pizzas. But closed hearings are common in sensitive congressional investigations, so it’s hard to see today’s insurrection as anything more than a political stunt. Republicans, after all, limited attendance at hearings into the 2012 attack on the United States Embassy in Benghazi, Libya .

Source: New York Times October 23, 2019 22:30 UTC