Senior members of Donald Trump’s administration have met with
Republican senators at the
White House to discuss how to handle the looming prospect of a
Senate impeachment trial, which they hope to limit to two weeks and use to call the Bidens and the CIA whistleblower who ignited the
Ukraine scandal to give evidence.Dr Fiona Hill told the inquiry on Thursday that Mr Trump’s allies, including personal attorney
Rudy Giuliani, had pushed a “fictional narrative” in Kiev in demanding an investigation into
Joe Biden, adding that EU ambassador Gordon Sondland had been dispatched on a “domestic political errand” for the president’s benefit.