As the impeachment inquiry against President Trump moves into a public phase this week, leading Democrats — joined by at least one GOP lawmaker — on Sunday rejected Republican demands for public testimony by the whistleblower whose complaint set the process in motion. The president also pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate baseless claims that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. “We should be protecting the identity of the whistleblower,” he told “Fox News Sunday.”AdvertisementHurd, who is not running for reelection, is unusual in risking Trump’s ire by publicly supporting protections for the whistleblower. “That’s their impression,” Johnson said of the officials who painted a picture of Trump improperly pressing Zelensky to go after the Bidens. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York said he couldn’t speak for Schiff but that figures like Hunter Biden and the whistleblower would not fall into that category.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 10, 2019 21:58 UTC