Ex-Trump adviser arrives to testify in impeachment inquiry

President Donald Trump's former top adviser for Russian and European affairs arrived on Capitol Hill Thursday to testify to House impeachment investigators , a day after leaving his job at the White House.

Tim Morrison, the first White House political appointee to testify, didn't respond to reporters' questions about his testimony, which takes place behind closed doors, but his information might be central to a push to remove the president from office.

Morrison, who served on the National Security Council, stepped down from that post Wednesday, and a senior administration official said he "decided to pursue other opportunities."
The official, who was not authorised to discuss Morrison's job and spoke only on the condition of anonymity, said Morrison has been considering leaving the administration for "some time."
He has been in the spotlight since August when a government whistleblower said multiple U.S. officials had said Trump was "using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election."
"I was alarmed by what Mr. Morrison told me about the Sondland-Yermak conversation," Taylor testified. "This was the first time I had heard that the security assistance not just the White House meeting was conditioned on the investigations."