Latest impeachment hearing updates
- The House Judiciary Committee held its second impeachment hearing on Monday, the first since Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will go ahead with articles of impeachment.
- The hearing lasted nearly 10 hours and included presentations from Democratic and Republican investigators about President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.
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Washington — Democrats and Republicans sparred over the evidence collected in the impeachment inquiry and the severity of the allegations against President Trump, laying out the case for and against impeachment in the House Judiciary Committee’s second hearing.
Attorneys from the Intelligence Committee presented their findings from the first phase of the investigation, providing conflicting accounts of Mr. Trump’s dealings with Ukraine as Democrats prepare to draft articles of impeachment. The hearing featured no new revelations, instead giving each side the opportunity to reiterate their positions.
Democratic Chairman Jerry Nadler and his counsel reiterated what is by now a familiar argument — that the president put his personal interests above the interests of the country to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.
Republicans on the Judiciary Committee vigorously protested the proceedings and repeatedly tried to stall the hearing by offering motions that were doomed to fail. They argued the evidence collected in the probe is ambiguous and does not establish the central allegations at the center of the probe.
The marathon hearing lasted nearly 10 hours and served as the opening act of this chapter of the impeachment probe, one which could culminate with the introduction of articles of impeachment as soon as this week.
Monday’s hearing featured testimony from Steve Castor, the Republican counsel on the Judiciary Committee; Daniel Goldman, the Democratic director of investigations on the Intelligence Committee; and Barry Berke, special oversight counsel for the Judiciary Committee.
