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    Democrats Have Wrapped Their Public Case On Impeachment. What Comes Next?

    Members of Congress used marathon testimony over two weeks to try to convince Americans that they should impeach and remove President Trump. The United States Senate, at least, isn't sold. Now what?
    by Philip Ewing Nov 22, 2019 5 minutes
    Fiona Hill, the National Security Council's former senior director for Europe and Russia, and David Holmes, an official from the American embassy in Ukraine, testified in the House impeachment inquiry Thursday.

    The marathon of testimony in Democrats' impeachment inquiry this week confirmed that the Ukraine affair, like so many earlier subplots in the era of President Trump, boils down to two big questions:

    What do the president's words mean? Can the president do what he did?

    The answers to those questions have been a partisan inkblot test since Trump exploded onto the political scene and now they are burning again as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats decide how they'll move ahead in a showdown over impeachment.

    The overall facts of the case now are well established: Trump sought concessions this year from Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

    In exchange for engagement and about $391 million in military assistance, Zelenskiy — and not an aide such as his prosecutor-general — had

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