From New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow. This is The Daily.

Today, a Times investigation reveals a first-hand account from John Bolton,

directly linking President Trump to the quid pro quo at the center of the impeachment.

Maggie Haberman and Mike Schmidt, on what that could mean for the final phase of the

Senate trial. It's Tuesday, January 28th.

Mike, Maggie, remind us when the discussion of John Bolton as a possible witness in the impeachment

process starts. So John Bolton left the White House in early September. Trump said he was fired,

Bolton said he resigned. A week later, we learn about the whistleblower's complaint.

And at that point, questions start to percolate. Why did Bolton resign? And what does he know?

And in the coming weeks, as the House impeachment investigators summon White House officials

to answer questions, we start to get different slivers.

Bolton's former aide, that's Fiona Hill, testified yesterday before House impeachment investigators.

Of Bolton's concerns. Bolton reportedly called Giuliani President Trump's personal attorney

this a hand grenade. And preoccupations with what was going on inside the White House.

This is something that Fiona Hill said when she was talking about John Bolton, the

National, so former National Security Advisor. We don't have a full picture, but we're hearing things

like Bolton saying, basically, he said, you go and tell Eisenberg that I am not part of any drug

deal that saw them, the US ambassador to the European Union and Mick Mulvaney are cooking up.

I didn't want to participate in this drug deal, but these administration officials were doing.

The term drug deal here refers to the Ukraine probe that they were trying to initiate with.

Right. And that was his way of referring to this pressure campaign against Ukraine to

start investigations into democratic rivals. Correct. So we're learning these different things,

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