President Trump openly called on China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden. The extraordinary request mirrored the one he made privately to the Ukrainian president and served as an open challenge to the Democrats investigating it as an abuse of power. This time, Mr. Trump referred to a business deal between Mr. Biden’s son Hunter and a fund that involved the state-owned Bank of China. Meanwhile, House investigators spent the day interviewing their first witness in the growing impeachment inquiry: Kurt Volker, the State Department’s special envoy for Ukraine, who was named in the whistle-blower’s complaint.

Source: International New York Times October 03, 2019 21:33 UTC