'I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests,' Hill said. 'I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary'
David Holmes, the foreign service officer testifying alongside Hill, said Russian intelligence was also trying to"drive a wedge" between the U.S. and Ukraine to give the Kremlin more influence in the region.
On Thursday, she said Sondland had told her that he and Mulvaney had an agreement that Ukraine's new president could only get an Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump if he agreed to carry out"investigations." Hill said Sondland told her one of those investigations involved Burisma, the company whose board Joe Biden's son, Hunter, was on.
"He was frequently on television, making quite incendiary remarks about everyone involved in this. He was clearly pushing forward issues and ideas that would probably come back to haunt us. And in fact, I think that that's where we are today," she said."At one point" during the lunch, Holmes said,"someone wondered aloud about why Mr. Giuliani was so active in the media with respect to Ukraine. My recollection is that Ambassador Sondland stated, 'Dammit Rudy.
Hill left the White House National Security Council in July, shortly before Trump's call with Zelenskiy. She strenuously defended her political impartiality as a national security official in her testimony. Many of the current and former officials who have testified in the impeachment hearings have been accused by Trump of being"never Trumpers" or otherwise attacked by the White House.
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