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Impeachment: How an overheard phone call could damage Trump
Going into the first day of public impeachment hearings, it seemed as though details of the proceedings would be relatively familiar for those who have followed the last month of coverage of closed-door testimony from a parade of current and former government officials.
Toward the end of his opening statement, however, acting US Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor changed the script.
He revealed that one of his aides had been with US Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland as he carried out a phone conversation with Donald Trump following a meeting with Ukrainians on 26 July, the day after the now-famous Trump-Zelensky phone call.
According to Taylor, his aide heard Trump ask about "the investigations" - and Sondland replied that Ukraine was ready to move forward.
Sondland then told Taylor's aide that the president cared more about the investigation of the Bidens than anything else involving Ukraine.
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