| 11.18.19

WATCH & COMMENT LIVE: Trump Impeachment Hearings - Jennifer Williams & Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman

How do you feel about today's hearing?

The U.S. House of Representatives holds its third public impeachment hearing against President Donald Trump on Tuesday at 9 a.m. ET.
Trump is accused of withholding military aid to Ukraine unless they agreed to investigate his political rivals.

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine specialist on the National Security Council, was on the phone during Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukranian president Vladomyr Zelensky. In his closed-door testimony in late October, Vindman said he "did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen, and I was worried about the implications for the U.S. government’s support of Ukraine."
Jennifer Williams, special adviser to Vice President Mike Pence on Europe and Russian. In closed-door testimony, Williams said Trump's July 25 call with Zelensky was "inappropriate." The president has labeled her (and Vindman) a "Never Trumper":

How the hearing will work: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) will each have 45 minutes to ask questions. After this, the other lawmakers on the Intelligence Committee will be allowed to question the witnesses.
The 30-second recap: On July 25, President Trump had a phone call with Zelensky where he asked the Ukrainian president to "do us a favor" and work with Attorney General William Barr and Trump's personal attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, to "look into" former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, who was on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma. Trump also asked Zelensky to investigate a debunked conspiracy theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in the 2016 election to benefit Hillary Clinton.

For more on the impeachment probe, visit our Trump Impeachment Coverage Action Center

—Josh Herman