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Hello and welcome to bbc news. Impeachment proceedings appear to be gathering pace in the us as democrats say theyre hoping to hold hearings into President Trump, as early as next week. It follows claims from a whistle blower that mr trump put pressure on the president of ukraine, to investigate joe biden, the democratic frontrunner in the race for the white house. The subpoenas are already flying. Secretary of state mike pompeo has been ordered to hand over documents concerning contact with the Ukrainian Government by next friday. As the democratic controlled House Foreign Affairs Committee Puts it, your failure or refusal to comply with the subpoena shall constitute evidence of obstruction of the houses impeachment inquiry. President trump has lashed out at the inquiry saying its a witch hunt. Our north america editorjon sopel has the very latest. There is support and defiance but also there is anger. In a twitter feuds like this morning he took aim at the Democratic House intelligen
Hello and welcome. In breaking news this hour, there are reports that the us president s special representative for ukraine, kurt volker, has resigned. Its after he was named in the whistleblower complaint at the centre of impeachment proceedings into donald trump. Meanwhile those impeachment proceedings appear to be gathering pace in the us as democrats say theyre hoping to hold hearings into President Trump, as early as next week. The subpoenas are already flying secretary of state mike pompeo has been ordered to hand over documents concerning contact with the Ukrainian Government by next friday. President trump has lashed out at the inquiry saying its a witch hunt. Our north america editor jon sopel looks at the days events in washington. We will bring you those details. We will be speaking to our correspondence shortly about that. Now we get the background and everything that has been happening. We have also been hearing about mike pompeo, he has been subpoenaed by those impeachmen
Democrats in the us house of representatives have stepped up their impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The us secretary of state, mike pompeo, has been ordered to hand over documents to an Oversight Committee in congress. Its trying to determine whether President Trump jeopardized National Security in his dealings with the government of the ukraine. The committee has also ordered five members of mr pompeos staff to give evidence. One of those is this man kurt volker, who in the last few hours, has been reported to have resigned from his position as the us special representative to ukraine. Hes not given a reason. Well find out more about that in a few minutes, from the student journalist who broke the story. First, our north america, jon sopel reports on how President Trump has reacted as the inquiry gathers steam. Theres support, theres defiance, but also theres anger. In a twitter fusillade this morning he took aim at the Democratic House chair of the house intelligence committ
Intelligence committee, adam schiff, the person who will play a key role in impeachment hearings. The Inspector General found that allegation credible. Donald trump said of him and then the whistle blower who revealed details of the president s conversation with his ukrainian counterpart. Volodymyr zelensky. But everything in the letter has been proved true, the call did take place, President Trump did ask his ukrainian counterpart to investigate his Democratic Party rivaljoe biden and the white house today confirmed the transcript of the call was moved to a more secure server. When President Trump asked ukraine to investigate corruption, the democrats want to impeach him. The democrats want to impeach President Trump. But now the Trump Campaign is firing back. They lost the election and now they want to steal this one. Dont let them. Im donald trump and i approve this. But the speaker of the house is unmoved. She says she was left with no other choice but impeachment following all of