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Exactly what Volker said. I watched all 12 hours, and thought all four witnesses, Lt. Col. Vindman and Jennifer Williams in the morning, Ambassador Volker and Tim Morrison in the afternoon, came across as honest, truthful, non-defensive and non-hostile, and I found them all credible even though each had a differing perception of what the infamous phone call meant, depending on how much other information they had about the "scheme" at the time.
Volker in particular said that in hindsight he should have put together the relationship between Busima, Hunter Biden and Joe Biden earlier, but insisted that Joe Biden had not and would not have ever done anything wrong. Morrison, who was only in his job for a few weeks, barely long enough to find the restroom, saw nothing legally wrong with the phone call (although he's not a lawyer), but also came across as forthright, honest... if confused by a convoluted cast of characters into the midst of which he was thrown... and clearly was trying to relate his own perception of the incident(s) as honestly as possible.
So far, all witnesses have impressed me as professional, experienced and extremely knowledgeable (except for Morrison), forthright and honest with the committee, and none showed any obvious partisan bias for either side during their testimony.
I do not buy Volker's naive "I did not see it at the time", he was constantly texting w/ Giuliani and Sondland, he knows what Giuliani has become, he knows that he is THE personal attorney for orange, he knew Giuliani was pushing various CT's.....and Volker is an intelligent guy.....so this whole act is just not believable.