First PUBLIC Trump Impeachment Inquiry hearings will be held next week
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House Democrats announce first public hearings in Trump impeachment inquiry
Nicholas Wu and Christal Hayes
USA TODAY•November 6, 2019
WASHINGTON – The first set of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump will happen next week, the House Intelligence Committee announced on Wednesday.
"Next week, the House Intelligence Committee will hold its first open hearings as part of the impeachment inquiry," said Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff on Twitter, adding that more hearings were to come.
Schiff, speaking to reporters outside the secure room in the Capitol basement where State Department official David Hale was testifying, said that the open hearings will allow the public to see the evidence and hear from witnesses themselves and “make their own determinations” about the allegations against the president.
"The most important facts are largely not being tested," Schiff said. "We are getting an increasing appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year and the degree to which the President enlisted whole departments of government in the illicit aim of trying to get Ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent, as well as further conspiracy theories about the 2016 election that he believed would be beneficial to his re-election campaign."
The Oct. 31 vote to formalize the impeachment process laid out a format for the public phase of the inquiry.
The first hearings will be held on Nov. 13 with Ambassador William Taylor and Deputy Assistant Secretary George Kent.
Taylor currently serves as the head American diplomat in Ukraine and previously told congressional investigators behind closed doors that a White House meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as well as security aid would be conditioned on investigations into Democrats.
What does it mean?: The Trump impeachment is all about an allegation of quid pro quo.
Kent, the State Department official overseeing European and Eurasian policy, said he raised red flags within the department about the influence of Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani in Ukraine policy making.
Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch will testify publicly on Nov. 15.
Yovanovitch, who was dismissed as the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine following criticism in conservative media amplified by figures like Donald Trump Jr., told investigators she was told to tweet support for Trump if she wanted to keep her job...
House Democrats announce first public hearings in Trump impeachment inquiry
Nicholas Wu and Christal Hayes
USA TODAY•November 6, 2019
WASHINGTON – The first set of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump will happen next week, the House Intelligence Committee announced on Wednesday.
"Next week, the House Intelligence Committee will hold its first open hearings as part of the impeachment inquiry," said Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff on Twitter, adding that more hearings were to come.
Schiff, speaking to reporters outside the secure room in the Capitol basement where State Department official David Hale was testifying, said that the open hearings will allow the public to see the evidence and hear from witnesses themselves and “make their own determinations” about the allegations against the president.
"The most important facts are largely not being tested," Schiff said. "We are getting an increasing appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year and the degree to which the President enlisted whole departments of government in the illicit aim of trying to get Ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent, as well as further conspiracy theories about the 2016 election that he believed would be beneficial to his re-election campaign."
The Oct. 31 vote to formalize the impeachment process laid out a format for the public phase of the inquiry.
The first hearings will be held on Nov. 13 with Ambassador William Taylor and Deputy Assistant Secretary George Kent.
Taylor currently serves as the head American diplomat in Ukraine and previously told congressional investigators behind closed doors that a White House meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as well as security aid would be conditioned on investigations into Democrats.
What does it mean?: The Trump impeachment is all about an allegation of quid pro quo.
Kent, the State Department official overseeing European and Eurasian policy, said he raised red flags within the department about the influence of Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani in Ukraine policy making.
Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch will testify publicly on Nov. 15.
Yovanovitch, who was dismissed as the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine following criticism in conservative media amplified by figures like Donald Trump Jr., told investigators she was told to tweet support for Trump if she wanted to keep her job...
First the Republicans protested that the initial hearings weren't public.
So now the Republicans may protest that the hearings were made public.
