Jennifer Williams, who was listening to the call on Jul 25, testified that Trump's insistence that Ukraine carry out politically sensitive investigations "struck me as unusual and inappropriate." As did Williams, Morrison told lawmakers he had concerns about Trump's remarks to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. House investigators on Saturday also heard closed-door testimony from a White House budget official about the holdup of military aid to Ukraine. The phone call occurred on Jul 26, one day after the now-infamous phone conversation between Trump and Zelenskiy. The testimony by Holmes, an aide to Taylor, ties Trump more directly to a pressure campaign in Ukraine to investigate the Bidens led by Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

Source: bd News24 November 16, 2019 23:15 UTC