Washington  —  President Donald Trump’s national security council director for European affairs testified on Tuesday that he was so alarmed after hearing Trump ask Ukraine’s president to investigate political rival Joe Biden that he reported the matter to a White House lawyer out of concern for US national security.

Lt-Col Alexander Vindman is the first current White House official to testify in the House of Representatives impeachment inquiry against Trump...

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