Witnesses up are 2 veteran diplomats acting u. S. Ambassador to ukraine William Taylor and Deputy Assistant secretary of state george cant a tailor has said in closed door testimony he had what he calls a clear understanding the trump wanted to pressure ukraine into investigating his political rival joe biden in exchange for continuing military aid to ukraine cant testify the trumps lawyer Rudy Giuliani pushed for the removal of the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie avantage who will testify on friday the president denies any wrongdoing and says the inquiry is in his words the greatest witch hunt in american history. Kimberly how kate is at the white house and castro is on capitol hill for us where that hearing is of course taking place well be talking to both of them in just a few minutes but 1st patty cohan begins our coverage. From a most the 1st day of his presidency there have been calls for Donald Trumps impeachment. But for the 1st 2 years with his party in control of con
Crane oh anything to the United States lets go with they didnt they owed appreciation for the support and they they were getting support and they appreciated that but there was not and there was not there was nothing owed to present trouble on that but you understood the upshot of this comment given made by both ambassador sunland and ambassador volcker to be that President Trump believed that ukraine owed him something personally is that accurate. Its hard to understand but. There was a feeling. On by President Trump. That he it and this came out in the in the transcript im sorry is came out in the discussion with the inaugural delegation when they came back to have a conversation with president on may 23rd that he had a he had a feeling of having been wronged by the ukrainians. And so this was something that he thought they owed him to really fix that wrong right but what he what he was talking about is you understood it because in the context of the conversation is that what he owed
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Saying that the pond the plates are moving in different areas of mindanao and there are more expected strong aftershocks in the coming days or so so indeed its a developing story that well be keeping in touch with throughout the day with you billups from manila thanks for joining us still ahead here on aljazeera a battleground for more than 50 years leader is trying to end the violence between the groups the army also launched a long time we are one of the most militarized regions on the street stay with us here on al jazeera. Hello again its good to have you back what we have been watching what has been happening here across parts of the caspian closely weve had seen and clouds and some rain pushing across much of that area but we do have a new system thats coming into play across parts of turkey and thats going to bring some more rain in towards georgia rashaun were going to see some snow in the Higher Elevations theyre getting even more intense as we go towards friday with more rain
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