Retiring Rep. Denny Heck says growing number in Congress no longer 'believe in compromise.'
For more on this story, watch"Meet the Press with Chuck Todd" on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. ET or check local listings.ongoing impeachment inquiry
into whether President Donald Trump pushed leaders in Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, his political rival, by withholding military aid. Heck said he will never understand colleagues in Congress who overlook the president's"unrelenting attack, frankly, on the free press, overlook his kind of vicious character assassinations, sometimes gratuitously, as in the instance of Ambassador Yovanovitch, and just, frankly, ignore the fact that he has such, to put it charitably, a very distant relationship with the truth."Marie Yovanovitch is the ousted U.S.
During that hearing last month, Heck called Yovanovitch"the best of this nation," a moment that went viral. “I am very angry about how it is the most powerful person on the face of the earth would remove you from office after your stellar service and somehow feel compelled to characterize you as ‘bad news,’ and then to ominously threaten that you’re ‘going to go through some things" Heck said at the time."So I am angry, but I’m not surprised.”
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