据报道，负责监督乌克兰政策的国家安全委员会(NSC)官员亚历山大·温德曼中校将在10月29日针对唐纳德·特朗普总统的弹劾听证会上作证纽约时报。温德曼听了特朗普要求乌克兰总统沃洛迪米尔·泽兰斯基调查民主党总统候选人乔·拜登的电话交谈。他两次向上司表达了他对电话的担忧。
“我认为要求外国政府调查一名美国公民是不恰当的，我担心这会影响美国政府对乌克兰的支持，”文章写道温德曼的开幕词。
声明继续称:“我意识到，如果乌克兰对拜登和乌克兰天然气公司拜登的儿子亨特所效力的布里斯马·[进行调查，这很可能被解释为一场党派之争，毫无疑问，这将导致乌克兰失去迄今为止一直保持的两党支持。”。"这将损害所有美国国家安全."
Vindman向NSC领导委员会谈到了这一呼吁，重申了他的担忧。
旧金山渔人码头区的一个电子广告牌上写着“弹劾”，上面有美国总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)2019年10月15日在加州旧金山的照片。
2010年7月，乌克兰国家安全和国防委员会秘书奥莱克桑德尔·丹利尤克与时任国家安全顾问约翰·博尔顿会晤时，驻欧盟大使戈登·桑德兰的评论也是温德曼的一个问题。能源部长里克·佩里和当时的库尔特·沃尔克大使也出席了会议。
温德曼声称，除非乌克兰同意调查拜登夫妇，否则泽兰斯基和特朗普不会会面。
“Amb。声明写道:“桑德拉开始谈论乌克兰进行具体调查，以确保与总统会面，当时博尔顿大使缩短了会面时间。”。
在会后的情况汇报中，桑德拉大使再次强调乌克兰继续调查的重要性。温德曼声称，他告诉桑德兰大使，他的声明不恰当，“调查拜登和他儿子的请求与国家安全无关，国家安全委员会不会介入或推动此类调查。”
温德曼从未与特朗普总统直接沟通。
众议院将于10月31日就弹劾调查进行投票。正在…有线电视新闻网报道投票可能不是对调查的正式授权，它可能导致特朗普成为美国历史上第三位被弹劾的总统。
美国众议院议长南希·佩洛西(Nancy Pelosi)在10月28日给立法者的一封信中写道:“该决议确立了对美国人民开放的听证程序，授权披露证词誊本，概述了在司法委员会审议可能的弹劾条款时向其移交证据的程序，并规定了总统及其律师的正当程序权利。”
NSC OFFICIAL VINDMAN TO TESTIFY IN IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY; REPORTED CONCERNS TO SUPERIORS TWICE
National Security Council (NSC) official Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who oversees policy in Ukraine, will testify as part of the ongoing impeachment hearing against President Donald Trump on October 29, according to The New York Times. Vindman listened to the telephone conversation during which Trump asked Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. He told his superiors of his concerns about the call twice.
"I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen, and I was worried about the implications for the U.S. government's support of Ukraine," reads Vindman's opening statement.
"I realized that if Ukraine pursued an investigation into the Bidens and Burisma [the Ukrainian gas company Biden's son, Hunter, worked for], it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play which would undoubtedly result in Ukraine losing the bipartisan support it has thus far maintained," the statement continues. "This would undermine all U.S. national security."
Vindman spoke to the NSC lead council about the call, reiterating his concerns.
An electronic billboard in the Fisherman's Wharf area of San Francisco reads "IMPEACH" with an image of U.S. President Donald Trump on October 15, 2019 in San Francisco, California.
Comments by Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland during a July 2010 meeting between Oleksandr Danylyuk, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council for Ukraine, and then-National Security Advisor John Bolton also were an issue for Vindman. The meeting was also attended by Energy Secretary Rick Perry and then-Ambassador Kurt Volker.
Vindman alleges that there would be no meeting between Zelensky and Trump unless Ukraine agreed to investigate the Bidens.
"Amb. Sondland started to speak about Ukraine delivering specific investigations in order to secure the meeting with the President, at which time Ambassador Bolton cut the meeting short," the statement reads.
In a debriefing following the meeting, Ambassador Sondland again emphasized how important it was that Ukraine follow through with the investigations. Vindman claims he told Ambassador Sondland that his statements were not appropriate and "that the request to investigate Biden and his son had nothing to do with national security, and that such investigations were not something the NSC was going to get involved in or push."
Vindman has never communicated directly with President Trump.
The House of Representatives will vote October 31 on the impeachment inquiry. While CNN reports the vote may not be a formal authorization of the inquiry, it could lead to Trump being the third president in U.S. history to be impeached.
"This resolution establishes the procedure for hearings that are open to the American people, authorizes the disclosure of deposition transcripts, outlines procedures to transfer evidence to the Judiciary Committee as it considers potential articles of impeachment, and sets forth due process rights for the President and his Counsel," wrote Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in a letter sent to lawmakers on October 28.
