CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin: Impeachment witnesses not having contact with Trump is 'a problem'
by Mike Brest
| November 13, 2019 04:58 PM
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin argued it was problematic that neither of the witnesses who testified in front of the House Intelligence Committee had direct contact with President Trump.
William Taylor, the top diplomat to Ukraine, and George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs testified in front of the Committee on Wednesday.
In one of the more notable moment of Taylor's testimony, he discussed a previously unknown phone call between Trump and Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, which took place a day after Trump's call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Sondland said that the Ukrainians were ready to move forward with an investigation of the Bidens. One of Taylor's staffers were present for that phone call.
During CNN's post-testimony coverage, Toobin called that conversation an "important new development."
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