Trump dismisses Giuliani calls with White House, OMB
Source: ABC News
President Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed the significance of repeated contacts between his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and phone numbers linked to the White House and its budget office — contacts that were first revealed in a House Intelligence Committee impeachment report released earlier this week.
"So somebody said he made a phone call into the White House. What difference does that make?” Trump said to reporters during a meeting with Italy's prime minister on the sidelines of a NATO meeting outside of London.
“Is that supposed to be a big deal?'" he added. "I don’t think so."
The 300-page report laying out the case against Trump is serving as the basis for the next phase of the impeachment inquiry: House Judiciary Committee hearings that are expected to precede the drafting of formal articles of impeachment against him. On Wednesday, the committee heard from law professors who discussed the constitutional origins of Congress’ impeachment power and debated whether Trump committed an impeachable offense when he asked the president of Ukraine to investigate a Democratic political rival and potentially held up critical security aid to pressure him.
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