From NBC News, this is Article 2, Inside Impeachment.

I'm Steve Kurnaki.

Today is Thursday, November 21st.

That's right, another bonus episode episode for you and here's what's

happening. Committee will come to order. Today's hearing marks the merciful

end of the spectacle in the impeachment committee,ally known as the Intelligence Committee.

It was the final open session of the week.

Two witnesses stood before the House Intelligence Committee

and declared their commitment to country above all else.

It is an honor to appear before you today.

I want to make clear that I did not seek this opportunity

to testify today.

I have no interest in advancing the outcome of your inquiry in any particular direction except toward the truth.

But that's where the similarities ended.

I put together the statement to lay out as best I can my recollection of events that may be relevant to this matter.

Thank you for inviting me to testify before you today.

I have a short opening statement.

Theona Hill, the former Russia expert on the National Security Council, acted almost as a stand-in for her boss,

former National Security Advisor John Bolton. And I had already brought to

Ambassador Bolton's attention, the attacks, the smear campaign against Ambassador Ivanovitch, and I'd asked

if there was anything that we could do about it.

And Ambassador Bolton had looked pained, basically indicated with body language that there was nothing which we could do

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