The third day of impeachment hearings conducted by the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee marked the first time that officials from inside the White House publicly expressed their misgivings about a freewheeling pressure campaign that now threatens Trump’s presidency. Two other senior White House aides, Jennifer Williams and Tim Morrison, also said during Tuesday’s hearings, which spanned 11-1/2 hours, that they were concerned by the political nature of that phone call. “What’s going on is a disgrace, and it’s an embarrassment to our nation,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday. Volker testified that Trump described Ukraine as “a corrupt country, full of terrible people.”“He said they ‘tried to take me down,’” Volker added. In closed-door testimony in October, Volker said he had not heard any references to investigations during a July 10 White House meeting between US and Ukrainian officials.

Source: bd News24 November 20, 2019 05:48 UTC