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The United States still has some leverage to push for a deal.

On Thursday, Fiona Hill, the former National Security Council Russia adviser, and David Holmes, counselor for political affairs at the U.S. embassy in Ukraine, testified before the House Intelligence Committee. Here is the testimony of Hill and Holmes with no member-infighting, no speechifying, and no unnecessary fluff.

In a new episode of Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation in the run-up to the 2020 election, Quinta Jurecic, Evelyn Douek, and Alina Polyakova, spoke with Ben Nimmo, the director of investigations at Graphika. They talked about how disinformation works; how a researcher knows where to look to find disinformation; how to tell when a strange pattern of tweets or Facebook posts is actually a disinformation campaign; and whether it's possible to counter these campaigns effectively, or if this work is just a never-ending game of whack-a-mole.

Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv David Holmes is testifying publicly on Nov. 21 in ongoing impeachment inquiry. His opening statement is available here and below.

Episode 144 is here! It was no easy task to sort out which topics to discuss this week, but in the end the Trumplandia segment prevailed over almost all the others. The end result? Tune in to hear Professors Chesney and Vladeck discuss and debate:

Former National Security Council official Fiona Hill will testify publicly on Nov. 21 in the ongoing impeachment inquiry. Her opening statement is available here and below.

It was another exciting day at the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland testified in the impeachment inquiry. While two more officials testified in a second hearing after Sondland, we thought his testimony was important enough to bring you ASAP. Here is the testimony of Amb. Sondland in the impeachment inquiry with no member-infighting, no speechifying, and no unnecessary fluff. 

Editor’s note: This is one of many summaries of depositions released by House impeachment investigators. The others are available here.

Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale testified before Congress in the ongoing impeachment inquiry on Nov. 6. Below is a summary of his testimony, as compiled from the transcript of his deposition.