Tuesday's congressional testimony will feature three witnesses who listened in on Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Day three of the House impeachment inquiry will focus on Trump's July 25 phone call that sparked a whistleblower complaint.
Four witnesses are scheduled to testify in two separate hearings over the course of the day, beginning at 9 a.m. ET. The first hearing will feature testimony from Lt. Colonel Alex Vindman, a Ukraine expert at the National Security Council, and Jennifer Williams, a European security expert working for Vice President. Following Vindman and Williams, the former top Russia and Europe expert at the NSC, Tim Morrison, will testify, along with Trump's former special envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker.
Vindman has already testified behind closed doors that he thought the president's request was "improper," and that he reported his concerns to the NSC's top lawyer. Vindman also testified that the White House transcript of the call left out key lines. They included an unfounded claim Trump made to Zelenskiy about former Vice President, and a specific reference Zelenskiy made to Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company which once employed Biden's son Hunter.
Williams is likely to face less aggressive questioning from Republicans than Vindman will, given that she was less involved in Ukraine policy at the White House than Vindman was. Republicans could even use her testimony to argue that Pence was largely removed from the Ukraine pressure campaign, thereby suggesting that the effort was confined to a few individuals, and not widespread administration policy.
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