Here's everyone testifying in the public hearings on the possible impeachment of Donald Trump
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine specialist on the National Security Council.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine specialist on the National Security Council, listened to the July 25 phone call betwen Trump and Zelensky at the center of the impeachment inquiry.
In closed-door hearing earlier this month, Vindman confirmed that Trump engaged in a quid pro quo with Zelensky.
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see where the gain would be for the president in investigating the son of a political opponent," he testified.
He said he was so concerned about the phone call that he reported it to John Eisenberg, the top lawyer for the National Security Council. He said Eisenberg told him not to tell anyone else about the phone call.
Jennifer Williams, a State Department official and advisor to Vice President Mike Pence.
Jennifer Williams, a State Department official and adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, listened in on the July 25 call between Trump and Zelensky.
Williams has said she was concerned about what she heard, but there's no indication she flagged her concerns to any supervisors, a source told CNN.
Kurt Volker, Special envoy to Ukraine.
Kurt Volker, the former US special representative to Ukraine, was on a list of witnesses requested to appear by Republican members of the Intelligence Committee, according to NPR.
In earlier statements he made in closed-door testimony, Volker contradicted Trump's claims that Biden urged Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who was investigating a natural-gas company that Hunter Biden was working for.
Volker said in his testimony that the prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, was not investigating the natural-gas company or any other corruption cases.
Volker said that Joe Biden was execution US policy in pushing for Shokin to be fired.
Additionally, Volker said in testimony that Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was a "direct conduit" between Trump and Ukraine.
Tim Morrison, a former National Security Council aide.
Tim Morrison, a former National Security Council aide, also heard the July 25 call between Trump and Zelensky.
In closed-door testimony he said he didn't view Trump's actions as illegal or inappropriate.
"I want to be clear, I was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed," Morrison said in remarks that were obtained by the Associated Press.
Gordon Sondland, US Ambassador to the European Union.
Gordon Sondland, US Ambassador to the European Union, has faced scrutiny over his closed-door testimony and a three-page amendment he sent afterward that revised his original testimony.
In closed-door testimony, Sondland told the committee that he was involved in a campaign to pressure Ukraine.
In his amendment to the testimony, Sondland, a once-top donor to Trump, revised his account, admitting that he told senior aide to Zelensky that Trump would "likely" leverage hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid as a way to get Ukraine to launch investigations into the Bidens.
Laura Cooper, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia.
Laura Cooper, a senior Pentagon official responsible for Ukraine, said in closed-door hearings that in conversations with Volker and Taylor, it was clear that Ukraine knew about the freeze on military aide before it was reported on in August.
"I knew from my Kurt Volker conversation and also from sort of the alarm bells that were coming from Ambassador Taylor and his team that there were Ukrainians who knew about this," she testified, according to the transcript.
Additionally, she said that Volker told her that he was working with Ukraine to make a statement that denied election interference.
David Hale, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
In a closed-door hearing on November 6, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale, testified about his knowledge of the ousting of US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.
Hale told the committee that ahead of his visit to Ukraine in March 2019, Congressman Pete Sessions had told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that Yovanovitch was "saying derogatory things about President Trump." He said he didn't believe the accusation was valid.
He said by the end of march, the criticism against Yovanovitch had grown so strong, that she emailed him, saying "she felt she could no longer function unless there was a strong statement of defense of her from the State Department."
Fiona Hill, formerly the top Russia specialist on the National Security Council,
Fiona Hill, the former NSC senior director for Russian and Eurasian affairs, gave testimony at a closed-door hearing on a White House meeting about the Trump administration's quid pro quo that is a key factor in the impeachment hearing.
She said that during the meeting Sondland said Ukraine had to commit to launching investigations favorable to Trump in order to meet with him at the White House.
She said then-National Security Adviser John Bolton cut the meeting short and told her to report it to NSC counsel John Eisenberg.
Also in her testimony, Hill said Giuliani was trying to impact policy in Ukraine, and Bolton told her that Giuliani was "a hand grenade that is going to blow everything up."
David Holmes, a US Embassy in Ukraine official.
David Holmes, a State Department aide who worked at the US Embassy in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, gave closed-door testimony about overhearing a phone call between Sondland and Trump that took place after the initial July 25 phone call.
He said he heard Sondland tell Trump that Zelensky would do "anything you ask him to" and that the Ukrainian president had committed to "do the investigation," according to NPR.
Bill Taylor, acting US ambassador to Ukraine, already testified.
Bill Taylor, the US's chief envoy in Ukraine, said in his testimony that Trump withheld back military aid from Ukraine unless the country agreed to investigate a company linked to Joe Biden's family, directly confirming a quid pro quo that has become the center of the impeachment probe.
George Kent, deputy assistant secretary for Europe and Eurasian affairs, already testified.
As a key witness in the inquiry, George Kent testified about former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's efforts on Trump's behalf to get information about former Vice President Joe Biden from Ukraine.
Marie Yovanovitch, former US ambassador to Ukraine, already testified.
Marie Yovanovitch, the ousted US ambassador to Ukraine, spoke about Trump, his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and top officials at the State Department in her testimony.
She described her ousting as a nearly yearlong "smear campaign" that was based on fabrications and lies.
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