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Top House Republicans accuse Schiff of preventing impeachment witness from answering certain GOP questions
House Republican leaders, in a fiery news conference Tuesday, said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., was almost acting like a "lawyer" for a witness in the latest impeachment hearing and kept him from answering certain questions from Republican members.
House Republican leaders, in a fiery news conference Tuesday, said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., was almost acting like a "lawyer" for a witness in the latest impeachment hearing and kept him from answering certain questions from Republican members.
Reps. Steve Scalise, R-La., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told reporters that Schiff shut down a Republican line of questioning during a hearing with Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who serves as a director on the National Security Council (NSC). “When we asked [Vindman] who he spoke to after important events in July -- Adam Schiff says, 'No, no, no, we're not going to let him answer that question,"' Jordan said.
In an interview on "Hannity" on Tuesday, Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, accused Schiff of "coaching" Vindman and called the impeachment process under Schiff and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "unprecedented."
In his prepared opening statement, Vindman expressed concern over President Trump's request to have Ukraine investigate political opponents and said he did not know the identity of the whistleblower whose complaint sparked the House Democrats' formal impeachment inquiry. Click here for more on our top story.
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