Top Ukraine diplomat and key witness in the impeachment investigation Ambassador William Taylor shares his concerns over U.S. policy toward Ukraine in his opening remarks on Capitol Hill. Watch the House impeachment hearing live here:
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The impeachment inquiry was set off after whistleblower's revelations, including that a White House official had reported hearing "frightening" details of a July phone call between Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. During the call, Trump urged Zelenskiy to investigate former Vice President Biden, a front-runner in the 2020 Democratic primary, and his son Hunter, who had been a board member of Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma. Trump and his Republican allies have questioned Biden's call while he was vice president for Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who was probing Burisma.
Trump also asked Ukraine to look into a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine and not Russia meddled in the 2016 election to help Hillary Clinton, not Trump. At the time of the call, the White House had beenWith these public hearings, the committee is trying to determine whether Trump abused the power of his office by requesting foreign assistance in a U.S. election.
In earlier closed door testimony before the committee, Taylor said he was told military aid was dependent on whether Ukraine would cooperate with the request to investigate Biden, the"wanted nothing less than Zelenskiy to go to [the] microphone and say 'investigations, Biden, and Clinton,'"Marie Yovanovitch, a career diplomat who was the ambassador to Ukraine from August 2016 until she was ousted by the Trump administration to May 2019, is expected to testify Friday.
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