HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “The House of Representatives opened historic impeachment hearings on Wednesday [11-13-19] and took startling new testimony from a senior American diplomat that further implicated President Trump in a campaign to pressure Ukraine to publicly commit to investigating former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. In a nationally televised hearing from a stately committee room across from the Capitol, William B. Taylor Jr., the top American diplomat in Ukraine, brought to life Democrats’ allegations that Mr. Trump had abused his office by trying to enlist a foreign power to help him in an election. Mr. Taylor testified to the House Intelligence Committee that he learned only recently of a July telephone call overheard by one of his aides in which the president was preoccupied with Ukraine’s willingness to say it would look into Mr. Biden and work by his son Hunter Biden for a Ukrainian energy firm.”
–Nicholas Fandos and Michael D. Shear, “Impeachment Hearings Open With Revelation on Trump’s Ukraine Pressure,” The New York Times online, November 13, 2019