Volker plans to appear before House Foreign Affairs Committee next week

[Suburban Warrior]

Source: CNN

(CNN) - Former US Special Envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker plans to appear at his deposition next Thursday in front of the House Foreign Affairs committee, according to a source familiar with his plans.
The source would not say if the White House is seeking to use executive privilege to constrict Volker in terms of what he can say or provide.
Volker's appearance before the committee was announced just hours before the news broke Friday evening that he had resigned.
Volker didn't offer a comment when contacted Saturday by CNN.

The former US special envoy is expected to face tough questioning after finding himself in the middle of the controversy surrounding the intelligence whistleblower who had alleged a coverup by the White House over a call made by President Donald Trump to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. That whistleblower also mentioned Volker's name in his complaint when discussing interactions between himself and Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, concerning pushing Ukraine to look into activities of Joe Biden's son, Hunter.
There is no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe or Hunter Biden.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/28/politics/kurt-volker-house-foreign-affairs-committee/index.html

[Iliyah]

1. Is the WH going to tell him to

obstruct. . . .

[Ohiogal]

2. I sure hope these key witnesses

Have good security around them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Volker is Executive Director of the MCCAIN Institute. . . . nt

[DesertRat]

7. The ghost of John McCain will hover over this deposition

Expect Don the Con to send out a virulent tweet storm.

[flibbitygiblets]

4. Can they still claim exec priv since Volker resigned yesterday?

Isn't he a private citizen now, free to testify?

Also, gotta say I haven't noticed any Dem candidates lining up to vindicate Joe Biden, despite there being no evidence of wrongdoing by all accounts. We're the good guys, and we should act like it by sticking up for each other.

[pnwmom]

5. They have already done that with other people, who refused to testify

even though they weren't employed anymore.

[DeminPennswoods]

8. Except Volker's not a Trump toady

He, and the Ambassador to Ukraine who was forced out, will be to this scandal as John Dean was to Watergate. They know everything that happened and can, and I believe will, name names.

[pnwmom]

9. He's a DC lobbyist with the BGR group, so I'm not hopeful. n/t

[Raven123]

6. Honestly, I think the idea is to focus on Trump's offense

Time spent defending Joe, is time lost pressing on Trump. The GOP wants us to talk about Joe. Its hard to take, but I want them to play defense.

[scarletwoman]

10. I think you must mean, you want them to NOT play defense.

And I quite agree. Dems need to stay on the offensive, and relentlessly attack.

[Raven123]

12. Yes. Thanks.

[Happy Hoosier]

11. His resignation is a good sign, I think.

He is not subject to Trump's orders. I do expect him to try and respect some confidentiality for the sake of the office of the Presidency, but he needs to come clean about anything involving Giuliani. Privilege can NEVER be used protect wrongdoing.