1. Fiona Hill and David Holmes are appearing together to testify before the House Intelligence Committee as part of the impeachment inquiry. Hill is a former senior director for Russia on the National Security Council and Holmes is a diplomat in the U.S. embassy in Kiev. Hill has raised concerns about Rudy Giuliani’s attempts to pressure Ukraine into announcing investigations into Trump’s political rivals. Holmes overheard EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland discussing the investigations with Trump the day after his July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. (NPR / CNN / CBS News / Axios / New York Times)
  • WATCH: Fiona Hill and David Holmes testify in the House impeachment inquiry hearing. (C-SPAN)

  1. An indicted business associate of Giuliani’s helped Rep. Devin Nunes arrange meetings and calls in Europe in 2018. Lev Parnas helped Nunes arrange the meetings as part of the investigations Nunes was conducting into the origins of the Mueller probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Nunes and three of his aides traveled to Europe at the end of 2018 to attend the meetings arranged by Parnas. Nunes is now the top Republican on the House committee in charge of the impeachment inquiry, where Parnas has been a recurring figure. (Daily Beast)

  2. Trump hosted lunch meetings with two of the three Republican senators who have not condemned the House impeachment proceedings. Trump invited Mitt Romney and Susan Collins to have lunch with him at the White House today. Romney said he won’t be discussing the impeachment proceedings “at all” during the lunch, but said he was “happy to hear what the president wants to talk about.” Romney and Collins are among more than 40 Republican senators that Trump has hosted at the White House since the end of the summer. (Politico / NBC News)

  3. Trump met privately with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for an undisclosed dinner at the White House in October. Facebook board member Peter Thiel also attended the dinner. Zuckerberg was in D.C. to testify before Congress about Facebook’s new cryptocurrency, and it was the second meeting between Trump and Zuckerberg in a month. It is unclear what Trump, Zuckerberg, and Thiel discussed or why the dinner was not made public. (NBC News)

  4. The Senate passed a continuing resolution to fund the government and avoid another government shutdown until Dec. 20. The bill passed with a 74-20 vote in the Senate after passing with a 231-192 vote in the House on Tuesday. The measure will now head to Trump’s desk, where he is expected to sign it. The bill gives Congress a few weeks to pass a long-term spending bill in order to keep the government open. Government funding will lapse if Trump doesn’t sign the bill by the end of the day on Friday. (CNBC)