You! Good morning everyone. This is the seventh in a series of public hearings the committee

will be holding as part of the House of Representatives impeachment. the for two weeks. Witness after witness has sharpened the picture of what the evidence

already seemed to show. President Trump tried to trade official acts of American

foreign policy in exchange for Ukrainian investigations in order to

benefit himself politically. But as this picture has become clear, Republicans

have held the party line.

They've responded to detailed testimony

by arguing that President Trump had a legitimate reason

to be suspicious of Ukraine.

Amid attacking the credibility of the witnesses, they kept coming back to a debunked conspiracy theory,

Republicans arguing that it was Ukraine and not Russia that meddled in the 2016 election.

Throughout the hearings, no witness challenged them on this line.

That is, until Thursday when Dr. Fiona Hill,

President Trump's former top advisor on Russia,

gave her opening statement.

Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe

that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country and that perhaps

somehow for some reason Ukraine did.

This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security

services themselves. portrayed and

propagated by the Russian security services themselves. I'm Isaac Daubert and today on Radio Atlantic

we're going to talk about impeachment, but instead of a conversation about how the inquiry is playing in domestic politics

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