New damning testimony on Capitol Hill today as two more witnesses testify before the House Intelligence Committee. Fiona Hill, a former Russia expert for the National Security Council, debunked a conspiracy theory that GOP members of the committee have been pushing about Ukraine:

“Some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and it’s security services did not conduct a campaign against our country, and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason Ukraine did. This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves.”

“I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary and that Ukraine, not Russia, attacked us in 2016.”

Constitutional legal scholar Laurence Tribe said, “Fiona Hill’s statement was extraordinarily powerful. She made clear that the Republicans on the Committee are damaging our national security by perpetrating an anti-Ukraine myth concocted by Putin to divide and undermine America. Her explanation of Russia’s tactics was brilliant.”

David Holmes, U.S. embassy aid in Ukraine appeared alongside Hill. He talked about the phone call he overheard between Ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland and Donald Trump:

“I then took the opportunity to ask Ambassador Sondland for his candid impression of the President’s views on Ukraine. In particular, I asked Ambassador Sondland if it was true that the President did not ‘give an expletive about Ukraine.’ Ambassador Sondland agreed that the President did not ‘give an expletive about Ukraine.’” 

Holmes also defended Ukraine.

“At a time of shifting allegiances and rising competitors in the world, we have no better friend than Ukraine – a scrappy, unbowed, determined, and above all dignified people who are standing up against Russian authoritarianism and aggression. They deserve better.”

Watch more of Holme’s opening statement above.