This is the Impeachment Briefing, The Times’s newsletter about the impeachment investigation. Mr. Bolton’s lawyer said in November that Mr. Bolton knew about “many relevant meetings and conversations” connected to the Ukraine matter that had not been shared with impeachment investigators. Witnesses testified that Mr. Bolton, who left the White House unceremoniously in September, was deeply troubled by the campaign to get Ukraine to investigate Democrats. How John Bolton changes a possible Senate trialI asked my colleague Peter Baker, who has written widely about Mr. Bolton’s possible participation in impeachment proceedings, how the news raised the stakes of a possible Senate trial. Of those four, if only Mr. Bolton testifies, can he still be a case-closing witness?

Source: New York Times January 07, 2020 00:11 UTC