21 Nov 2019

US Ambassador to EU delivers bombshell impeachment testimony

From First Up, 5:08 am on 21 November 2019

But first to US, where Donald Trump's Ambassador to the European Union has delivered a historic bombshell testimony before the impeachment inquiry in Washington. Gordon Sondland made several statements that have blown holes in Donald Trump's defenses - he is currently under cross examination as we speak. President Trump is being accused of pressuring Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate one of his main Democrat challengers, Joe Biden, and Mr Biden's son Hunter who worked for a Ukrainian company when Joe Biden was US vice-president. Our correspondent in Washington, Harry Horton, joins us now