NEW: Amb. William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, arrives on Capitol Hill to testify in the first of the House's public impeachment hearings.
The first, historic public impeachment hearing was about to begin Wednesday as Democrats hoped to make their case to millions of Americans watching on television that President Donald Trump's conduct is so serious he deserves to be removed from office.
“We take the oath of office – all of us become custodians of the Constitution, custodians of all that is contained in it. Our system of checks and balances, separation of powers, a check on each other. Legislative – Article I – the legislative branch – that’s the Congress of the United States. Our duties are spelled out in the Constitution. Article II, the executive branch - duties spelled out; judicial branch, Article III," Pelosi answered.
The folks behind him in line are visiting Washington from Denver. They’re all spending their vacation taking in history in the first public impeachment hearings. https://t.co/8t24xjHvlE "It is important to underscore that the House's impeachment inquiry, and the Committee, will not serve as venues for any Member to further the same sham investigations into the Bidens or into debunked conspiracies about 2016 U.S. election interference that President Trump pressed Ukraine to undertake for his personal political benefit," Schiff, D-Calif., asserted in a memo to all Intelligence Committee members on Tuesday.
Tayor also affirmed that it was his"clear understanding" that"everything" from the U.S., including a White House meeting with Trump, was contingent upon Ukraine launching an investigation. He even testified that he believed the"irregular" diplomatic channel employed by Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, was used to benefit Trump.
A Democratic aide working on the impeachment inquiry said that Democrats paired Taylor and Kent together because they"both were witnesses to the full storyline of the president's misconduct.
Republicans point out that Ukraine never initiated an investigation into Trump's rivals but Trump still met with Zelenskiy and U.S. security assistance ultimately flowed to Ukraine in September 2019, undercutting the Democrat's assertion of a quid pro quo.
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