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🗓️ 14 November 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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On the first day of public hearings in the Trump impeachment inquiry, lawmakers questioned two diplomats, and laid out two competing narratives about the investigation. This is the first episode in our new series on the impeachment inquiry. For more information, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	It started with a whistleblower's complaint about President Trump's contact with a foreign
0:06.1	leader.
0:07.1	Tonight, allegations of a White House cover-up as details of a whistleblower's complaint
0:11.7	are revealed.
0:12.7	I had a perfect phone call with the president of Ukraine.
0:16.4	Like, I mean, perfect.
0:18.2	In that call, the president asked for an investigation of Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden
0:24.0	and his son Hunter.
0:25.5	Today, I'm announcing the House of Representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry.
0:31.8	Now the burden is on the Democrats really to tell Americans the story of what happened
0:36.0	and why it's impeachable.
0:37.6	Good morning, everyone.
0:40.2	This is the first in a series of public hearings.
0:42.4	The committee will be holding as part of the House's impeachment inquiry.
0:45.6	I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:49.3	I'm in the Washington Bureau of the Times.
0:50.9	It is day one of the public hearing phase of the impeachment inquiry.
0:55.0	We just heard from the two witnesses who testified jointly, both are senior diplomats,
0:59.6	George Kent and William Taylor.
1:01.6	I'm going to grab Julie Davis, who is the congressional editor of the Times, and we're
1:05.1	going to talk about what just happened.
1:07.1	Hi.
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