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I went searching for News on the Fiona Hill testimony — happening today.
I found this information-filled Impeachment topic thread instead. Here are some highlights:
Former Trump Russia adviser Fiona Hill testifies in impeachment inquiry — live updates
by Emily Tillett and Kathryn Watson, CBS News — Oct 14, 2019
6:20 a.m. Former National Security Council official Fiona Hill is expected to appear for a closed deposition Monday. Hill, until this past August, served as the senior director on the National Security Council for European and Russian Affairs.
CBS News' Margaret Brennan reports that Hill is expected to tell lawmakers that President Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland actively avoided her and the NSC process and ran their own Ukraine policy, according to a source familiar with Hill.
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6:00 a.m.: California Congressman Adam Schiff, the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said congressional investigators leading the impeachment inquiry might not pursue testimony from the intelligence community whistleblower if doing so risks exposing the person's identity.
"Given that we already have the call record, we don't need the whistleblower, who wasn't on the call, to tell us what took place during the call," Schiff said on "Face the Nation" Sunday, referring to the July 25 call between Mr. Trump and the Ukrainian president. "We have the best evidence of that."
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5:00 a.m.: Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the Pentagon is planning to comply with oversight requests made by congressional committees leading the impeachment inquiry, including a subpoena for documents about a delay of hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance to Ukraine over the summer.
"We will do everything we can to cooperate with the Congress," Esper said on "Face the Nation" Sunday. "Just in the last week or two, my general counsel sent out a note -- as we typically do in these situations -- to ensure documents are retained."
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The live updates link has additional info on each of those entries; plus other noteworthy entries that I didn’t cite here.
I hope CBS News keeps this live feed format going. They are performing a public service by do so, by reporting the latest developments, on this very significant story. Hopefully, history will pivot on these ongoing disclosures about Trump’s rampant abuse of power.
Informing the average citizen, in the end, will motivate their senators to do the right thing — and vote to end these law-breaking acts, emanating from the Chief Executive’s Office.
If this nation were run like Corporation, as Republicans are fond of saying, the CEO would have been voted out long, long ago. Like right after the Helsinki Summit, where America’s compromised CEO showed everyone were his real alliances lie.
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PS. In Helsinki Trump told the world that he trusted the word of Putin, over the unanimous consensus of his own Intelligence Agencies. That should have been enough to “fire” any ‘normal CEO’ — casting aside, all the subsequent bullying tactics (fearful incoherent tweets), for the noise they truly are.