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Transcripts released from key impeachment witness testimonies
By Meg Wagner, Mike Hayes, Veronica Rocha and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN
Updated 3:06 p.m. ET, November 4, 2019
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Transcripts are out: The House Intelligence Committee has released transcripts from depositions with former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and former State Department adviser Michael McKinley. We're going through them now, and we'll post highlights here.
Skipped testimony: Four White House officials including John Eisenberg, deputy counsel to the President for national security affairs were scheduled to testify today. None are expected to show up.
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Yovanovitch said top State Department officials reached out to Fox News' Sean Hannity for Ukraine information
From CNN's Marshall Cohen
In the scramble this spring to figure out why then-US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was being recalled from Kiev, the highest levels of the State Department turned to Fox News host Sean Hannity for information, according to Yovanovitchs testimony.
In her closed-door deposition, Yovanovitch said she heard that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, or his senior aides, were reaching out to Hannity to figure out why he was criticizing her and calling for her removal from Ukraine. (Yovanovitch was the target of repeated attacks by Hannity, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump Jr., the Presidents son.)
She testified:
What I was told by (Senior State Department official) Phil Reeker was that the Secretary or perhaps somebody around him was going to place a call to Mr. Hannity on Fox News to say, you know, what is going on? I mean, do you have proof of these kinds of allegations or not? And if you have proof, you know, telI me, and if not, stop.
Yovanovitch continued, And I understand that that call was made. I don't know whether it was the Secretary or somebody else in his inner circle.
She explained that things simmered down for a bit after that phone call, and that the attacks against her lulled before later reaching a fever pitch later on with her removal.
More context here: Hannity and Fox News are mentioned at least dozen times in the 317-page transcript. He is an incredible influential voice in Trumps orbit, acting as an informal adviser to the President and routinely using his TV platform to push pro-Trump talking points and conspiracy theories.
Throughout Yovanovitchs deposition, she explained how career State Department officials struggled to square official US policy with the positions being floated by Trumps allies in conservative media, including Hannity, and John Solomons controversial columns in The Hill."
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I would love to see Hannity subpoenaed and made to squirm.
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