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Kurt Volker, citing Biden link, becomes latest witness to revise testimony
8 monthes ago | By NBC News
The former U.S. envoy for Ukraine negotiations appeared at the House Intelligence Committee impeachment hearing.
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Kurt Volker, citing Biden link, becomes latest witness to revise testimony
8 monthes ago | By NBC News
The former U.S. envoy for Ukraine negotiations appeared at the House Intelligence Committee' impeachment hearing.
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Kurt Volker completely reverses his previous impeachment testimony and now says he thought discussions about political investigations were 'inappropriate'
8 monthes ago | By Business Insider
Kurt Volker, the former US envoy to Ukraine, made a substantial change in his testimony during Tuesday's impeachment hearings before Congress.
Volker has been accused of working with President Donald Trump 's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and US ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, to pressure Ukraine to investigate Trump's political opponents.
During his previous closed-door testimony, Volker said there was no mention of the investigations Giuliani was pushing for during a July 10, meeting with Sondland and former National Security Adviser John Bolton.
But during the public...
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Impeachment hearings: Live highlights from Kurt Volker's and Tim Morrison's testimony
8 monthes ago | By Politico
The second half of Tuesday's open impeachment hearings will focus on two officials Republicans have called as witnesses - Kurt Volker, the former U.S. envoy for the Ukraine peace talks, and Tim Morrison, a senior NSC official overseeing Russia and Europe policy who resigned in October. Volker was the first witness to testify behind closed doors to impeachment investigators, and since then others have told lawmakers that he was involved in some talks to press Ukraine's president to publicly announce Trump's investigations. Morrison, who previously testified that he didn't think President...
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