Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman departed Capitol Hill after dark on Tuesday after spending more than 10 hours detailing his concerns at President Trump's handling of foreign policy. The next morning he returned to his desk as Trump's top Ukraine expert.
The swift return to work for one of the impeachment inquiry's central witnesses -- who the President and his allies decried as a"never-Trumper" with ulterior motives, even as he remains on the President's National Security Council staff -- illustrates the predicament facing staffers as the proceedings advance.
Attendee: Bolton criticized Trump at closed-door event 00:30Some National Security Council officials -- particularly those not working on top White House priorities like the Middle East or Asia -- increasingly feel undervalued and sidelined in the policy-making process, according to people familiar with the dynamic. Like Vindman, much of the National Security Council staff is drawn from the Pentagon, State Department or the US intelligence agencies.
White House NSC official says he sounded the alarm after Trump's Ukraine call 02:33Trump's interactions with much of the National Security Council staff have been fleeting, and he has made a point of announcing that some of the most damaging testimony against him comes from people he doesn't know."Why are people that I never even heard of testifying about the call," he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday just ahead of Vindman's arrival, in his military uniform, on Capitol Hill.
House Dems' resolution potentially expands role in impeachment inquiry for GOPers 01:40 The impeachment probe also ramped up at a moment when there was already a cloud of uncertainty hanging over the National Security Council as officials adjusted to their new leader, Robert O'Brien, who replaced former national security adviser John Bolton last month. Officials who were looking to O'Brien for direction on how to handle the impeachment probe haven't found it, they say.
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