Washington  — Fiona Hill, a scholar of Russia with a British accent and a historian’s grasp of context, endured three Republican lawmakers lecturing her about the flaws of the impeachment inquiry at which she was testifying under subpoena before she seized the moment.

“Could I actually say something?” asked Hill, a former national security council (NSC) senior director. “All of us who came here under a legal obligation also felt we had a moral obligation to do so. We came as fact witnesses.”..

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