How to Watch Live Today’s Public Impeachment Hearings
Starting at 10:00 am ET and continuing on Friday, President Trump’s public impeachment hearings will be televised live, starting with three current and former government officials who have worked with Ukraine’s leaders.
Up to this point, news of impeachment has been limited to closed-door transcripts released by Congress. (If you’d like to take a look at some of these, NPR has compiled the ones that Congress has so far made public.)
While the three officials who were due to appear have already testified, Democrats, including Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff, are likely hoping to garner public support for impeachment by putting their testimonies on display. These officials who must testify include:
- Bill Taylor, a former high-ranking ambassador to Ukraine, who has already stated that the refusal of military assistance from Ukraine was a clear quid pro quo .
- George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of the State Department who currently oversees European and Eurasian affairs, said Trump expressed his desire for the Ukrainian president to publicly announce the investigation of both Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.
- Marie Yovanovitch, another former ambassador to Ukraine, which is among the few applications that are definitely worth reading, said that the President Trump, and Rudy Giuliani were plotting against her plot . (You may have also read about Jovanovitch being asked to tweet that she is supporting the president to keep her job.)
Today both Schiff and the high-ranking Republican on the committee, the California representative. Devin Nunes will open the session with opening statements, followed by statements by Taylor and Kent; both will testify side by side in front of committee members, including the New York representative. Sean Patrick Maloney, California Representative. Eric Swalwell and Texas. representative of Joaquin Castro. (Jovanovitch is due to testify Friday before the committee.)
If you want to watch the action unfold, PBS will be streaming all of its YouTube coverage live. The hearings are likely to last until lunchtime.
And if you can’t watch it live, CNN will post ongoing updates.