A top National Security Council official who listened in on President Donald Trump’s phone call with the leader of Ukraine on Oct. 31 told House lawmakers conducting the impeachment inquiry he thought there was nothing illegal in Trump’s request for the Ukrainian leader to investigate the business dealings of Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden.
Tim Morrison, senior director for European affairs at the White House and the National Security Council, said that instead of being concerned with illegality in the call, he was wary about the memorandum of the conversation (MemCon) leaking to the media and how it would be perceived in Washington’s polarized environment.
