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7:46 P.M. — Morrison once again confirms he didn’t hear anything unlawful during the Trump-Zelensky call.
7:45 P.M. — Morrison confirms each time Sondland told him he had spoken with President Trump, he checked the call logs to see it occurred.
7:40 P.M. — Volker: “Ambassador Sondland is a big personality and sometimes he says things that might be a bit bigger than life.”
7:35 P.M. — Volker on Sondland: “He cared about Ukraine. He wanted to see U.S. support to Ukraine increased.”
7:30 P.M. — Morrison: “I did not understand [investigating the Biden family] as a policy objective.”
Volker and Morrison both say they have no evidence of quid pro quo, bribery or treason https://t.co/xHzl0V73EQ pic.twitter.com/7eCmuCRRF9
— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 20, 2019
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6:35 p.m. Morrison on Vindman:
Top official Tim Morrison said Alexander Vindman's bosses had a lot of concerns about him:
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) November 19, 2019
-Judgement
-Potential leaker
-Did not keep his bosses in the loop on what he was doing
-Went around his bosses' backs
-Was mad he was cut out of working on Ukraine pic.twitter.com/Z9qgSVs9dt
5:35 p.m. Morrison testifies that he heard nothing wrong on the July 25 Trump-Zelensky call. Wanted access restricted to the transcript over leak concerns.
4:55 p.m. Nunes begins questioning the witnesses, saying that whatever "drug deal" the Democrats are cooking up, the American people aren't buying it.
Nunes: What ever "drug deal" the Democrats are cooking up, the American people don't buy it.
— Olivia Beavers (@Olivia_Beavers) November 19, 2019
Says TV ratings are way down.
4:30 p.m. When asked whether he interpreted President Trump's request to speak with Rudy Giuliani about Ukraine as an order, Volker responds that he understood it to be "part of the dialogue."
4:30 p.m. Volker states his opposition to the Biden investigation, saying "I don’t think that raising the 2016 election or Vice President Biden or these things that I consider to be conspiracy theories circulated by the Ukrainians — they’re not things we should be pursuing as our national security strategy with Ukraine."
Volker thinks that the Burisma investigation was necessary & unremarkable. Hunter Biden was on the board of that corrupt company. He doesn’t seem to have a problem w/ an investigation into Burisma, including presumably Hunter Biden’s role on that board.
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) November 19, 2019
KURT VOLKER on July 10 White House meeting with Ukrainians:
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) November 19, 2019
"The meeting was essentially over when SONDLAND made a general comment about investigations. I think all of us thought it was inappropriate ... I do not recall further discussion regarding investigations or Burisma." pic.twitter.com/gaUCcikSFj
4:25 p.m. Morrison says Trump's mention of the Bidens and Crowdstrike during the July 25 call with Zelensky weren't part of his NSC-supplied talking points.
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After a morning session of public impeachment testimony from Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and Russia adviser Jennifer Williams, former National Security Council aide Timothy Morrison and Kurt Volker, Trump’s former special envoy to Ukraine for peace negotiations will appear for testimony.
Morrison listened in on the infamous July 25 phone call between President Trump and Ukraine's newly elected President, Volodomyr Zelensky, in which Trump requested that Ukraine investigate several matters, including Joe and Hunter Biden as well as 2016 US election meddling.
Democrats claim Trump's request constitute election interference, however earlier in the day Vindman told the House Intelligence Committee that it's perfectly acceptable for Presidents to request foreign investigations.
DEMOCRAT: "Would it ever be U.S. policy in your experience to ask a foreign leader to open a political investigation?"
— Trump War Room (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TrumpWarRoom) November 19, 2019
VINDMAN: "There are proper procedures in which to do that. Certainly the President is well within his right to do that." pic.twitter.com/fsn5ioiaZh
According to a Reuters anonymous source, Volker was central to discussions with Ukraine which would have involved whether the White House withheld US aid in exchange for investigations into gas firm Burisma and the Bidens.
"He knew that Volker and Sondland and Kent were on top of this and were dealing with it on the day to day... His take on this was ... he should let those people do their job."
According to Fox News, a total of nine current and former US officials are set to testify over the next three days in the House's impeachment inquiry.