{"id":116707,"date":"2019-10-29T14:57:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T13:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/29\/ukraine-expert-to-give-first-hand-testimony-on-trump-zelenskiy-call-live\/"},"modified":"2019-10-29T14:57:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T13:57:12","slug":"ukraine-expert-to-give-first-hand-testimony-on-trump-zelenskiy-call-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=116707","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine expert to give first-hand testimony on Trump-Zelenskiy call \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Vindman to tell House committees the call made him \u2018worried about the implications for the US government\u2019s support of Ukraine\u2019Sign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 1.57pm GMT As Alexander Vindman testifies to impeachment investigators about Trump\u2019s call with the Ukrainian president, Republican lawmakers are struggling to answer a question about whether it would be acceptable for a commander-in-chief to ask foreign countries to investigate their political rivals.Asked Rep. Amodei multiple times if it&#8217;s OK for Trump to ask foreign countries to investigate his rivals &#8211; and he says: &#8220;My English teacher says you got a conclusion, so if you want to interview yourself, go ahead.&#8221; Watch another GOP member struggle to answer a simple question: pic.twitter.com\/qYXxKuNkW7 1.35pm GMT Democrats are already rushing to defend Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman after the president dismissed the national security council official as a \u201cNever Trumper.\u201dLt. Colonel Vindman has spent his life in service to the United States.He served our country in the @USArmy, deployed on multiple tours, and earned the Purple Heart after a roadside bomb attack in Iraq.His patriotism and integrity are unquestionable. pic.twitter.com\/x5WNnt7oFH Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2019\/oct\/29\/trump-news-today-live-impeachment-inquiry-alexander-vindman-ukraine-call-latest-updates\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine expert to give first-hand testimony on Trump-Zelenskiy call \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Vindman to tell House committees the call made him \u2018worried about the implications for the US government\u2019s support of Ukraine\u2019Sign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 1.57pm GMT As Alexander Vindman testifies to impeachment investigators about Trump\u2019s call with the Ukrainian president, Republican lawmakers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}