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Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman arrives to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

The Latest: House panel wraps up 5-hour hearing

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The Capitol is illuminated at sunrise in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

About that call: What to watch at Trump impeachment hearings

By LAURIE KELLMAN - Associated Press

Former National Security Council Director for European Affairs Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman returns to the Capitol to review transcripts of his testimony in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republicans assail security aide who reported Trump call

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press

The Capitol is seen in Washington, early Friday, Nov. 8, 2019. Impeachment hearings for President Donald Trump come at the very time that Capitol Hill usually tends to its mound of unfinished business. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Impeachment inquiry schedule: List of witnesses and when they testify

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, and Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, listen as they wait to speak at an event on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, regarding the earlier oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the case of President Trump's decision to end the Obama-era, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), program. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Closest witnesses kicking off big Trump impeachment week

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press

Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman said he witnessed diplomatic maneuvers he didn't like. (Associated Press/File)

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, NSC’s Ukraine director, to testify of ‘outside influencers’

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump shake hands following their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

Obama National Security Council ‘detailees’ led Trump opposition

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Former National Security Council Director for European Affairs Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, center, leaves after reviewing his testimony from a closed-door interview on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, in the impeachment inquiry on President Donald Trump's efforts to press Ukraine to investigate his political rival, Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Donald Trump aides fight over Ukraine policy

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a ceremony to present the Presidential Citizens Medal posthumously to Rick Rescorla in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The Latest: Witness describe Trump dealing with Ukraine

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Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a Pentagon detailee as the National Security Council's Ukraine specialist, accused Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, of promoting a quid pro quo on Ukraine at a crucial July 10 White House meeting. (Associated Press/File)

‘No ambiguity’: Takeaways from Ukraine transcripts

By MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the InterContinental Barclay New York hotel during the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The House impeachment inquiry is zeroing in on two White House lawyers privy to a discussion about moving a memo recounting President Donald Trump’s phone call with the leader of Ukraine into a highly restricted computer system normally reserved for documents about covert action. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Impeachment inquiry focuses on 2 White House lawyers

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump walks out of the North Portico of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, to travel to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and then on to Chicago. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Top Trump adviser steps down ahead of impeachment testimony

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump talks to reporters before boarding Air Force One for a trip to Chicago to attend the International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Conference and Exposition, Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Tim Morrison, NSC official, resigns ahead of impeachment testimony

By Deb Riechmann - Associated Press

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., walks to a secure area of the Capitol before the arrival of Catherine Croft, a State Department adviser on Ukraine, who is scheduled to testify in a closed door meeting as part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The Latest: Bolton won’t testify without subpoena

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Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, a military officer at the National Security Council, center, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, to appear before a House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Committee on Oversight and Reform joint interview with the transcript to be part of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Bipartisan backlash comes after Army officer Alexander Vindman’s character publicly questioned

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2019, file photo, a White House-released memorandum of President Donald Trump's July 25, 2019, telephone conversation with Ukraine's newly elected president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, released Sept. 25, 2019. There were dozens of ears listening to President Donald Trump’s 30-minute phone call with the leader of Ukraine that is at the center of a House impeachment inquiry, and as many eyes that saw what he said.(AP Photo/Wayne Partlow, File)

Anatomy of the phone call now imperiling Trump’s presidency

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

White House to cut foreign policy staff by nearly half

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 29, 2013, file photo, a worker helps monitor water pumping pressure and temperature, at an oil and natural gas extraction site, outside Rifle, on the Western Slope of Colorado. A Trump administration national security official has sought help from advisers to a think tank that disavows climate change to challenge widely accepted scientific findings on global warming, according to his emails. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Emails: Trump official pressed NASA on climate science

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks as he meets with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Climate threat doubter is leading effort to advise Trump

By KEVIN FREKING and SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks with reporters after his panel voted in a closed session to send more than 50 interview transcripts from its now-closed Russia investigation to special counsel Robert Mueller, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. Two associates of President Donald Trump have been charged with lying to the committee and Schiff said Mueller should consider whether additional perjury charges are warranted. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Adam Schiff hires National Security Council ex-staffers for Trump probe

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press