Crucial Part of Impeachment Inquiry Began Today

The public impeachment hearings enter a second week with several key witnesses scheduled to testify before the House Intelligence Committee over the next three days.

This week more witnesses in the impeachment inquiry are set to come before the House Intelligence Committee. Four of them today. All four previously gave testimony behind closed doors. The next three days could decide whether President Trump’s accusers can establish that he abused his power to pressure Ukraine for political favors.

The Republican defense of President Trump last week was that witnesses don’t have first-hand knowledge of the July 25th phone call between President Trump and the President of Ukraine, but three of today’s witnesses were on that phone call.

Jennifer Williams, a Foreign Policy Aide to Vice President Mike Pence and from the National Security Council, Timothy Morrison and Alexander Vindman.  U-S Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, is also being grilled by both democrats and republicans today.