Fox News host Chris Wallace said his takeaway from the House impeachment hearings was that all the witnesses believed President Trump offered Ukraine a quid pro quo.
“What becomes clear in all of this is that … everybody seemed to be working off the same set of facts,” Wallace said Thursday during a break in testimony given to the House Intelligence Committee. “And that they all believed the same thing, which was that there was a quid pro quo. If you wanted a meeting with the president, you were going have to agree to investigate the 2016 allegations of Ukrainian involvement in the 2016 election as well as Burisma.”
The host said that the witnesses on Thursday impressed him, and he was particularly struck by testimony by Fiona Hill, the former top Russia adviser to Trump. Wallace has been critical of Trump during the impeachment proceedings saying his actions amounted to “more than a phone call.”
“It was a coordinated campaign,” he said last month after testimony had been released. “What you’ve heard from Bill Taylor and Fiona Hill and Col. Vindman and a bunch of others is that this was a coordinated campaign by people outside the regular diplomatic channels at the State Department to put pressure on Ukraine to do certain things.”
The president has attacked Wallace in return by calling him “nasty” and “obnoxious.”
