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Schumer Seeks Bolton, Mulvaney Testimony at Senate Impeachment Trial

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December 16, 2019

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Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said the White House should let acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, former National Security Advisor John Bolton and two other White House officials testify at an impeachment trial “unless the president has something to hide.“

The four witnesses “have direct knowledge of why the aid to Ukraine was delayed,” Schumer told reporters Monday. “These people are crucial and haven’t been heard from.“

The other two officials are Robert Blair, senior adviser to Mulvaney, and Michael Duffey, the White House budget office’s associate director for national security.

Schumer said he’s “very eager and willing” to talk with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell about trial procedures, but instead McConnell has spoken publicly and said he would be taking his cues from the White House. That would be “very unfair,” Schumer said.

The minority leader also has asked that the White House produce documents on Ukraine aid that it has thus far withheld.

“I haven’t seen a single good argument about why these witnesses shouldn’t testify or these documents shouldn’t be produced,” Schumer said.

Some Republicans have said that Trump should be able to call the witnesses he wants, including Joe Biden or his son. Hunter Biden served on the board of Ukraine energy company Burisma Holdings, and Trump had asked Ukraine’s president to investigate that matter.

The House is expected to vote on the two proposed articles of impeachment on Wednesday.

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