White House official who heard Trump’s Ukraine call testifies

White House official who heard Trump’s Ukraine call testifies

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A White House national security official and decorated Iraq War veteran testified before House investigators Tuesday as part of the impeachment inquiry. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, director of European affairs on the National Security Council, personally heard President Donald Trump call with Ukraine’s president. Plus, Turkey is struggling to get international support for a plan to resettle 2 million Syrian refugees in a strip of land along the Turkey-Syria border. And we’ve got a piece about Latin American witchcraft, known as brujería.