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Sarah Frostenson

“I was concerned by the call. What I heard was inappropriate,” says Vindman in his opening statement. Adding that he worried that bipartisan support for Ukraine was jeopardized by the call.

Perry Bacon Jr.

I doubt the Republicans will ever push to remove Trump, but Williams’s testimony suggests Pence was not too involved in Trump’s Ukraine moves, and there has been little reporting that puts Pence in the midst of this scandal. So in that sense, Pence could replace Trump and perhaps limit the damage from the scandal for the GOP.

Rick Klein

Vindman talking about “official channels” that he used to report his concerns. That’s at least an implicit response to Sen. Johnson’s suggestion (without evidence) that Vindman is a leaker.


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