Washington • The view among the national security officials was unanimous: Military aid to Ukraine should not be stopped by the White House.
That was the testimony of Laura Cooper, a Defense Department official, whose deposition was released Monday in the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
"My sense is that all of the senior leaders of the U.S. national security departments and agencies were all unified in their — in their view that this assistance was essential," she said. "And they were trying to find ways to engage the President on this."
Cooper told investigators that soon after that meeting of national security officials at the White House, she was visited by Kurt Volker, the U.