IMPEACHMENT/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/UKRAINE: “As the impeachment inquiry has picked up speed in recent weeks, Americans have heard a lot about the ‘three amigos’ — a trio of Washington figures who worked with President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, to carry out Mr. Trump’s plan for Ukraine to investigate his political rivals. Tuesday [11-19-19] afternoon, the first of the amigos — Kurt D. Volker, Mr. Trump’s former special envoy to Ukraine — will testify before the House Intelligence Committee. Mr. Volker is a career diplomat who served as the United States’ permanent representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization under President George W. Bush and was most recently the executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership, a Washington-based research group affiliated with Arizona State University.”
–Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Who Is Kurt Volker? Trump’s Former Special Envoy to Ukraine Will Testify,” The New York Times online, November 19, 2019