In a stark departure from previous impeachment witnesses, Timothy Morrison, a former deputy assistant to the president and the National Security Council’s former senior director for Europe and Russia, delivered an opening statement of fewer than two pages on Tuesday.

Morrison, who listened in on the call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that formed the central part of the intelligence community whistleblower complaint sparking the Democrat-led impeachment investigation, said, “I feared at the time of the call on July 25th how its disclosure would play in Washington’s political climate. My fears have been realized.”