California's Nunes, impeachment inquisitor, dodges question over alleged meeting with Ukrainian ex-prosecutor

WASHINGTON - For the past two weeks of historic public impeachment hearings against President Trump, Rep. Devin Nunes has played the role of high-profile inquisitor.

Now, Nunes, R-Calif., finds himself cast differently, entangled in the same chain of events the committee has been probing - whether Trump and his allies sought to turn rumors and intrigue in Ukraine into a source of political attacks against Democrats in the U.S., especially former Vice President Joe Biden.

Late Friday, CNN reported that Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Trump personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, was prepared to tell Congress that Nunes had met late last year in Vienna with Viktor Shokin,