Democrats will face the first real test of whether they can mount a straightforward case that convinces a majority of Americans that Trump deserves to be formally impeached.
For Republicans, this new phase of public hearings offers them a chance to portray the entire impeachment inquiry as illegitimate and overtly partisan, simply another opportunity for Democrats to attack Trump ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
A House resolution passed last month established that the only members who will be allowed to question witnesses at the outset of the hearings are House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. and his Republican counterpart, fellow California Rep. Devin Nunes, who will each get to use 45-minute blocks of time.
"I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign," Taylor texted Sondland in a September message. After speaking with Trump, Sondland responded hours later that there were no "quid pro quos of any kind." US Deputy undersecretary of State George Kent arrives for a closed-door deposition in front of the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC October 15, 2019 as part of the Trump impeachment inquiry.Kent is a deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs at the State Department. A career foreign service officer, Kent's current position makes him responsible for U.S. policy toward Ukraine.
Republicans, meanwhile, are likely to seize on aspects of Kent's testimony that are second- or thirdhand, much as they've done with Taylor. They are also likely to highlight one particular aspect of Kent's prior testimony that reflects poorly on Biden." Kent said that, in 2015, he raised a red flag about Hunter Biden's work for Burisma while Joe Biden was serving as vice president.
Yovanovitch's account lined up with many of the allegations made in the original whistleblower's complaint, which spawned the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry. In May of this year, Yovanovitch was abruptly recalled from her post in Kiev and forced to return to the United States within a matter of days.
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