Tim Morrison said that he had sought to restrict access to the partial transcript of the Trump-Zelensky call because he had concerns about “how its disclosure would play in Washington’s political climate.” “My fears have been realized,” he said
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.
In his closed-door deposition last month, Volker categorically denied that the issue of “investigations” had come up in that meeting. But in his new statement, Volker says Sondland did make “a generic comment about investigations,” which “all of us thought was inappropriate.”
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