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House Impeachment Panels Ask Key Trump Aide Mulvaney to Testify

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - U.S. House of Representatives committees leading the
   impeachment inquiry targeting President Donald Trump said Tuesday they
   want to question acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney about
   his knowledge of Trump's efforts to press Ukraine to open
   investigations to help him politically.

   The House Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Oversight panels said they
   asked Mulvaney to testify on Friday, although it was not immediately
   clear whether he would appear for closed-door questioning at the
   Capitol. Trump has sought, with some success, to block key aides from
   testifying about his actions involving the eastern European country,
   although other diplomatic and national security officials have answered
   the impeachment investigators' questions.

   "Based on evidence gathered in the impeachment inquiry and public
   reporting," the committees told Mulvaney in a letter, "we believe that
   you possess substantial first-hand knowledge and information relevant
   to the House's impeachment inquiry."

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