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Former Trump Adviser Next in Line to be Asked About Ukraine

Associated Press

   WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's top adviser for Russian and
   European affairs is leaving his job at the White House just as he's
   scheduled to testify before the House impeachment investigators, a
   senior administration official said.
   Tim Morrison owes his job at the National Security Council to Trump,
   but his testimony Thursday in the House impeachment inquiry might be
   central to a push to remove the president from office.
   A senior administration official said Wednesday that Morrison "has
   decided to pursue other opportunities." The official, who was not
   authorized to discuss Morrison's job and spoke only on the condition of
   anonymity, said Morrison has been considering leaving the
   administration for "some time."
   Morrison has been in the spotlight since August when a government
   whistleblower said multiple U.S. officials had said Trump was "using
   the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country
   in the 2020 U.S. election."
   Now it's his turn in the impeachment probe's hot seat.
   Morrison, tall and lean with an authoritative voice, will be asked to
   explain that "sinking feeling" he got when Trump demanded that
   Ukraine's president investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and
   meddling in the 2016 election.
   Morrison, who is in his 40s, is a political appointee in the Trump
   White House, brought on board by former national security adviser John
   Bolton to address arms control matters and later shifted into his
   current role as a top Russia and Europe adviser. It was there that he
   stepped into the thick of an in-house squabble about the activities of
   Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who had been conversing with
   Ukrainian leaders outside of traditional U.S. diplomatic circles.
   Known as a "hawk" in national security circles, Morrison is set to be
   the first political appointee from the White House to testify before
   impeachment investigators. The probe has been denounced by the
   Republican president, who has directed his staff not to testify.
   Regardless of what he says, GOP lawmakers will be hard-pressed to
   dismiss Morrison, formerly a longtime Republican staffer at the House
   Armed Services Committee. He's been bouncing around Washington in
   Republican positions for two decades, having worked for Rep. Mark
   Kennedy, R-Minn., Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and as a GOP senior staffer on
   the House Armed Services Committee, including nearly four years when it
   was chaired by Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas.
   

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