Pelosi says testimony of diplomats 'corroborated evidence of bribery' by Trump

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that testimony presented by two career diplomats during Wednesday’s open impeachment hearing “corroborated evidence of bribery” by President Trump in his relations with Ukraine.

Her comments come as Democrats seek to build a case that Trump sought to withhold military assistance and an Oval Office meeting until Ukraine announced investigations into former vice president Joe Biden and his son, as well as an unfounded theory that Ukrainians interfered in the 2016 presidential election to hurt Trump.

Earlier Thursday, Trump asserted that “normal people” would close the case on his impeachment after Wednesday’s nationally televised hearing.

His assessment underscored the clash that emerged after the six-hour hearing, with Democrats saying it provided damning evidence of a president using his office to advance his political interests, while Republicans argued it laid bare a desperate attempt to oust Trump from office.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/impeachment-hearings-live-updates/2019/11/14/703b27da-0660-11ea-8292-c46ee8cb3dce_story.html?wpisrc=al_news__alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1

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1. TrumPutin claims he didn't watch, yet parrots Fox

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2. Breaking 2:20pm: A second State Department official overheard Trump's call with E.U. envoy

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2:20 p.m.
A second State Department official overheard Trump’s call with E.U. envoy discussing Ukraine and ‘investigations’
A second official from the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv was present when U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland spoke on a July 26 phone call from Ukraine with Trump that more directly ties the president to his administration’s effort this year to pressure Ukraine’s new leadership into publicly committing to investigate Biden.

Suriya Jayanti, a Foreign Service officer based at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, overheard the phone call and also witnessed Sondland’s other interactions during his trip to Ukraine, where the call took place in a restaurant, according to a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a matter involved in the impeachment proceedings.

Jayanti was the embassy official tasked with accompanying Sondland throughout the day of the call.

It became clear Wednesday that at least one embassy staffer, David Holmes, overheard Sondland on the call in Ukraine. He is slated to testify behind closed doors in the House impeachment probe Friday.

Jayanti’s presence near Sondland during the call in Ukraine was first reported by the Associated Press.