{"id":35539,"date":"2019-11-24T21:25:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T21:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35539"},"modified":"2019-11-24T21:25:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T21:25:03","slug":"trump-impeachment-inquiry-powerful-testimony-on-final-day-of-public-hearings-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35539","title":{"rendered":"Trump impeachment inquiry: powerful testimony on final day of public hearings &ndash; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth period of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> checked powerful testimony from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/nov\/21\/trump-impeachment-inquiry-fiona-hill-david-holmes-testimony\">Fiona Hill<\/a>, a former National Security Council official and former top Russia expert in the White House, and David Holmes, a state department aide in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Both spoke of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/nov\/20\/gordon-sondland-trump-impeachment-ukraine-quid-pro-quo\">Gordon Sondland<\/a>, the diplomat to the European Union, as Holmes described a cellphone conversation in which he overheard Trump ask Sondland about &#8216;investigations&#8217; and heard Sondland tell Trump the Ukrainians had agreed to them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/nov\/21\/fiona-hill-testimony-ukraine-house-impeachment\">Impeachment testimony takeaways: Fiona Hill says Ukraine strategy &#8216;very clear&#8217;<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2019\/nov\/21\/trump-impeachment-inquiry-fiona-hill-testimony-video\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2019\/nov\/21\/trump-impeachment-inquiry-fiona-hill-testimony-video\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth period of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump checked powerful testimony from Fiona Hill, a former National Security Council official and former top Russia expert in the White House, and David Holmes, a state department aide in Kyiv. Both spoke of Gordon Sondland, the diplomat to the European Union, as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15629,179,583,8925,15616,1953],"class_list":["post-35539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-americas","tag-donald-trump","tag-ukraine","tag-us-congress","tag-us-news","tag-us-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/48091574630704.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}