Kurt Volker speaks to the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees as Democrats begin their impeachment inquiry in earnest.
between the men, though the president has said he withheld the aid for other reasons and not to pressure Ukraine to open the investigation.
Volker’s deposition to the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committees lasted several hours, and while attended by multiple committee members, was largely conducted by committee staff. He is the first of five current and former State Department employees the committees intend to depose in the next 10 days despite allegations fromRepublicans largely dismissed Volker’s testimony as adding nothing to Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.
“Not one thing he has said comports any of the Democrats’ impeachment narrative. Not one thing,” Rep. Jim Jordan , the ranking Republican on the Oversight Committee, told reporters a few hours into the deposition. In his complaint, the whistleblower says that a day after the July 25 call between the U.S. and Ukrainian presidents, Volker and the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, met with Zelensky and gave him advice about how to “navigate” Trump’s request.The complaint also states that multiple U.S. officials had raised concerns in the spring about the president’s personal lawyer Rudolph W.
Giuliani has said repeatedly in televised interviews that he was in frequent contact with Volker about his efforts, going so far as to show off text messages between the two men arranging meetings with Ukrainian officials in an effort to counter allegations he was conducting rogue foreign policy at the president’s behest.
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