Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez put the onus on GOP lawmakers to take a stand as public hearings begin in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. 'Right now what Republicans have to do is decide what their role is going to be in the scope of history.'
"Right now what Republicans have to do is decide what their role is going to be in the scope of history," the New York Democrat told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an interview on"The Situation Room" after the televised hearing."Because we will look back at this time and really, truly examine the moral decisions that each member of Congress has decided to make."Trump could become just the third impeached president in American history.
Read MoreWednesday's testimony from diplomats Bill Taylor and George Kent, she said, was"astounding and devastating."Taylor, the senior US diplomat in Ukraine, told the House Intelligence Committee about a previously unknown conversation Trump had had the day after his phone call with the Ukrainian President that sits at the center of the House's inquiry.
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