Schiff: Calling Hunter Biden as impeachment witness would be 'an illegitimate abuse of the trial'
by Caitlin Yilek
| January 21, 2020 08:46 AM
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff asserted it would be an “abuse†of President Trump's Senate impeachment trial if Republicans call Hunter Biden to testify.
"It would certainly be fair for the president and his team to be able to call witnesses that can provide material information on the charges. It would not be appropriate for the president to seek to call witnesses merely to try to perpetuate the same smear campaign that was foiled when his plot was discovered," Schiff, who is one of the impeachment managers, told CBS Evening News.
"Hunter Biden, for example, can't tell us anything about whether the president withheld military aid, whether he withheld that aid to coerce Ukraine to conduct political investigations," he continued saying in a clip from the interview, which is set to air Tuesday evening. "Or why he wouldn't meet with the president of Ukraine."
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