WASHINGTON, DC — Four witnesses are scheduled to testify Tuesday before the House Intelligence Committee in the third day of open hearings in the impeachment inquiry into whether President Donald Trump pressured Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Witnesses scheduled for the morning session are Jennifer Williams, an aide to Vice President Mike Pence, and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a U.S. Army officer who works on the National Security Council and who said he raised questions at the White House about Trump’s push for the investigations.
In the afternoon, the committee was scheduled to hear from former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker and former senior director of European affairs at the National Security Council Tim Morrison.
Four more people will testify public Intelligence Committee hearings before the House breaks for the Thanksgiving recess. They include Trump’s European Union Ambassador Gordon Sondland, who spoke to the president about his Ukraine policy; Fiona Hill, a former Russia adviser to the White House who told lawmakers about former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s concerns about Ukraine.
Sondland, who other witnesses have said was intimately involved in discussions over whether Trump held up congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine in exchange for investigations into Biden and the president’s other rivals in the 2020 election, will testify alone Wednesday morning.
At least three people who testified last week said they overheard a July phone call in which Trump and Sondland talked about the push for the investigations. Among them was David Holmes, the political counsel at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, said he heard Trump’s voice through the earpiece of the phone because the president was talking so loud, according to testimony obtained by The Associated Press.
Holmes said that Sondland told Trump on that call that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy would do the investigations and would do “anything you ask him to.”
The inquiry was sparked by a report by whistleblower who raised concerns about the July phone call.
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The Associated Press contributed reporting.