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| The Trump Impeachment Inquiry: Latest Updates | The Trump Impeachment Inquiry: Latest Updates |
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| Fiona Hill, President Trump’s former top Russia and Europe adviser, is on Capitol Hill today to testify that she and other officials objected strenuously to the removal of the ambassador to Ukraine, only to be disregarded. | Fiona Hill, President Trump’s former top Russia and Europe adviser, is on Capitol Hill today to testify that she and other officials objected strenuously to the removal of the ambassador to Ukraine, only to be disregarded. |
| Ms. Hill, who stepped down from the White House’s National Security Council staff over the summer, viewed the recall of Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch from Kiev as an egregious abuse of the system by allies of Mr. Trump who were seeking to remove a perceived obstacle, according to a person familiar with Ms. Hill’s account. | Ms. Hill, who stepped down from the White House’s National Security Council staff over the summer, viewed the recall of Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch from Kiev as an egregious abuse of the system by allies of Mr. Trump who were seeking to remove a perceived obstacle, according to a person familiar with Ms. Hill’s account. |
| The removal of Ms. Yovanovitch has emerged as a key episode in the narrative under examination by the House as part of its impeachment inquiry against Mr. Trump. A career diplomat, Ms. Yovanovitch was targeted by Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, and other allies who were seeking to press Ukraine to investigate Mr. Trump’s Democratic rivals. | The removal of Ms. Yovanovitch has emerged as a key episode in the narrative under examination by the House as part of its impeachment inquiry against Mr. Trump. A career diplomat, Ms. Yovanovitch was targeted by Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, and other allies who were seeking to press Ukraine to investigate Mr. Trump’s Democratic rivals. |
| Ms. Hill will be the first person who worked in the White House to be deposed by House investigators and is appearing despite the White House declaration last week that it would refuse to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry or allow its staff to do so. The White House has not attempted to stop Ms. Hill from testifying, according to the person familiar with her account, but White House lawyers have exchanged letters with Ms. Hill’s lawyer about precedents regarding the confidentiality of presidential communications. | Ms. Hill will be the first person who worked in the White House to be deposed by House investigators and is appearing despite the White House declaration last week that it would refuse to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry or allow its staff to do so. The White House has not attempted to stop Ms. Hill from testifying, according to the person familiar with her account, but White House lawyers have exchanged letters with Ms. Hill’s lawyer about precedents regarding the confidentiality of presidential communications. |
| — Peter Baker | — Peter Baker |
| Read more: Former Trump Aide to Testify on Pressure to Oust Ambassador to Ukraine | Read more: Former Trump Aide to Testify on Pressure to Oust Ambassador to Ukraine |
| Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida is no stranger to creating a stir as one of the president’s most strident defenders on Capitol Hill. He threatened the president’s estranged personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, before Mr. Cohen testified before the House Oversight Committee. He invited a notorious Holocaust denier to a State of the Union address. | |
| And on Monday, he created a kerfuffle early into Ms. Hill’s testimony by crashing the former White House adviser’s deposition before it had even began. Mr. Gaetz, who sits on the Judiciary Committee, is not a member of any of the three committees — Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, and Oversight — that are spearheading the impeachment inquiry, and was not invited to participate. | |
| Apparently unfazed, Mr. Gaetz said he called the House parliamentarian in an attempt to stay in the deposition — only to be told he was indeed not allowed to stay. The Florida Republican emerged from the secure deposition room and complained to a mass of reporters. | |
| “It’s not like I’m on the Agriculture Committee,” Mr. Gaetz said. “I’m on a committee that has jurisdiction over impeachment.” | |
| — Catie Edmondson | |
| The White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said on Monday that Mr. Trump “strongly condemns” a violent video shown at a pro-Trump event at his Miami golf resort, even as the president continued to attack one of the video’s subjects. | The White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said on Monday that Mr. Trump “strongly condemns” a violent video shown at a pro-Trump event at his Miami golf resort, even as the president continued to attack one of the video’s subjects. |
| In the video, the president’s face is superimposed on a character in the movie “Kingsman: The Secret Service” as he rampages through a church killing all the parishioners, who sport the logos of media companies or the Photoshopped faces of political opponents. One of those opponents is Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. | In the video, the president’s face is superimposed on a character in the movie “Kingsman: The Secret Service” as he rampages through a church killing all the parishioners, who sport the logos of media companies or the Photoshopped faces of political opponents. One of those opponents is Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. |
| Mr. Trump continued to press his attack on Mr. Schiff for paraphrasing the reconstructed transcript of the July conversation between Mr. Trump and the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. That reconstructed transcript, released by the White House, appears to show Mr. Trump demanding his Ukrainian counterpart investigate a domestic political rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr., but Mr. Trump has tried to use Mr. Schiff’s paraphrase to say that the demand that fueled an impeachment inquiry was fabricated by the California Democrat. (It wasn’t.) | Mr. Trump continued to press his attack on Mr. Schiff for paraphrasing the reconstructed transcript of the July conversation between Mr. Trump and the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. That reconstructed transcript, released by the White House, appears to show Mr. Trump demanding his Ukrainian counterpart investigate a domestic political rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr., but Mr. Trump has tried to use Mr. Schiff’s paraphrase to say that the demand that fueled an impeachment inquiry was fabricated by the California Democrat. (It wasn’t.) |
| President Trump repeatedly pressured President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to investigate people and issues of political concern to Mr. Trump, including former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Here’s a timeline of events since January. | President Trump repeatedly pressured President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to investigate people and issues of political concern to Mr. Trump, including former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Here’s a timeline of events since January. |
| A C.I.A. officer who was once detailed to the White House filed a whistle-blower complaint on Mr. Trump’s interactions with Mr. Zelensky. Read the complaint. | A C.I.A. officer who was once detailed to the White House filed a whistle-blower complaint on Mr. Trump’s interactions with Mr. Zelensky. Read the complaint. |
| Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced in September that the House would open a formal impeachment proceeding in response to the whistle-blower’s complaint. Here’s how the impeachment process works. | Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced in September that the House would open a formal impeachment proceeding in response to the whistle-blower’s complaint. Here’s how the impeachment process works. |
| House committees have issued subpoenas to the White House, the Defense Department, the budget office and other agencies for documents related to the impeachment investigation. Here’s the evidence that has been collected so far. | House committees have issued subpoenas to the White House, the Defense Department, the budget office and other agencies for documents related to the impeachment investigation. Here’s the evidence that has been collected so far. |