What Went Down On Day 1 Of The Impeachment Hearings

Some background on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky: He wasn’t a politician until being elected president earlier this year. Instead, he was a comedian and an actor on a hugely popular Ukrainian TV show … In which he played an average Joe who was elected president.

Kent is speaking to why Zelensky so badly wanted a White House meeting. He was a new politician and an Oval Office meeting would have been a big deal for him at home, potentially even boosting his ability to negotiate with Putin.

The Democratic counsel is Daniel Goldman, who left a job as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Manhattan in 2017.