What Went Down On Day 3 Of The Trump Impeachment Hearings

we are now on the July 10 White House meeting between U.S. and Ukrainian officials, the one that prompted National Security Adviser John Bolton to say, “I am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up.”

Rep. Krishnamoorthi did an interview with ABC News Live ahead of today’s hearing. He said the “bulk” of the committee’s impeachment witnesses will testify this week, suggesting additional hearings beyond Thursday will be limited and based in part on whether new names come up in this week’s hearings.

“I didn’t know of a David Holmes until last week when Ambassador Taylor brought him up in his testimony. So to the extent that new characters emerge from this week’s testimony, I think we’ll obviously I have to question them and then go go from there,” Krishnamoorthi told me. “But we’re going to be talking to the bulk of [witnesses], you know, this week.”

Vindman is basically saying that the readouts of these foreign leaders’ calls are political tools. The staff put “corruption” in the readout to emphasize that issue, but Trump seems to have very much not brought up that issue.