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joining me now is the former united states ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch.m the, edge comes out next week, and we have never needed her insights more, more now than ever. thank you so much for joining us, ambassador. i have to tell you, it is very noisy here because they have just announce -- we are at the train station -- they have just announced a special trained to budapest, which will be leading here probably within the next half an hour or so. you can see people loading up. these are people who came in from all parts of ukraine. they are escaping, it is mostly women and children, as we have described, and that train that you are looking at now is going to be heading to budapest. they will try to find a new life, i and i have met people who know where they are going and others who do not. i apologize to our audience for the noise, but this is an active train station. ambassador, i want to get to those questions about your experience under the trump administration and the ukraine scheme for which he was impeached. but first i want to talk to you about wha

ali, we look forward to your interview with marie yovanovitch, in just a few minutes. cal perry has been reporting from lviv, ukraine, first, take a listen to some of the people he was met who have made the decision to leave ukraine for now. >> it begins with the obvious, bags and suitcases, bags, in grocery bags. and pets, so many paths, the city of lviv is becoming a story of a people carry. a city of 700,000 has now become a city of close to 1 million. but in the small theater, now a makeshift shelter. two families share with us but they brought with them. >> it wasn't safe to say there. >> with only three bristle pack, and the russian army closing in, camilla took only the essentials. maybe some food and bread, cookie and some waterfront children. that's all. essential to every parent, cell phones. cell phones are everywhere, to distract, to communicate, to speak the loved ones left behind on the front lines. >> it's a message that is honey, i love you yuck. and i know we will be together soon. >> newly minted reporter, nine year old eve, house me interview her six

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impeachment who herself was a victim of trump's scheme is speaking out in "lessons from the edge" marie yovanovitch the grueling smear campaign that prompted her firing. brought upon the united states and weakened ukraine and emboldened russia and as yovanovitch said at the time, ukraine deserved our unwavering support. >> supporting ukraine is the right thing to do, it's also the smart thing to do. if russia prevails and ukraine falls to russian dominion, we can expect to see other attempts by russia to expand it's territory and influence. >> former ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch is here. thank you for being here. the things that are happening now to ukraine, were you ever able to wrap your mind around why donald trump himself and his administration were so against ukraine, why they had it in for ukraine? did you get your mind around why that? >> bizarre. he didn't think a lot about ukraine but thought about russia as a great power and sort of accepted i think putin's view of ukraine not being a really country and if it was, it was a weaker country and therefore not worthy of his attentio

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now, one person with unique insight into all of this is marie yovanovitch.paign led by allies of former president trump. this morning she is out with a new book, obviously written before the russian invasion. yovanovitch warned we have failed to call out russia's behavior in a way russia finds persuasive or taken steps to stop it that moscow finds compelling. if we continue to fumble around, we will some day, maybe soon, find ourselves in a serious confrontation in a context not of our choosing and not to our advantage. author from "lessons from the edge," marie yovanovitch. what you wrote in so many ways pressureent. how is it the consequence of what you write? >> i think it's the culmination of what we have seen coming from the putin regime over the last 20 years. 2008, the invasion of georgia. then we had ukraine in 2014. and now ukraine again in 2022. and i think putin will continue to expand the russian empire, the former soviet empire as he sees it, unless he is stopped. >> you write that putin needs to be met with a closed fist. and too often over the

ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. removed by president trump and testified during his first impeachment inquiry. ambassador yovanovitch, also the author of a brand-new book, "lessons from the edge, a memoir." ambassador, it's a really intriguing and well-written book. congratulations on it. >> thank you very much. >> so i want to get your reaction to secretary austin's comments, because you have said that you think the u.s. should be considering a no-fly zone for humanitarian purposes, but you said it doesn't have to involve american pilots. so what exactly are you proposing? >> so i would leave the details to the experts, i'm not a military expert, as you know. but i don't think we should be taking things off the table at this point. i think yesterday's $800 million package that the president announced was a really, really important step in terms of getting the ukrainians some of the defense systems that they need. the drones, the stingers, the javelins, and so much more. i think that was really important. and i think

ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch joins me now.s a book out "lessons from the edge." thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> absolutely. i've been reading what you have been writing and saying. one thing that jumps right ow, because you know this region so well, this is your business, this is your expertise, you said that you would have expected this russian military to be more, quote, competent in its opening invasion. tell me about that and what you see here as its lackluster performance even amidst some great tragedies. >> yeah, so, back when i was in government, we would always remind ourselves that the russians aren't ten feet tall. this is, if it ever came to that, this is an adversary that could be dealt with and that is what we're seeing on the ground in ukraine. somewhat -- but it is somewhat surprising how lackluster the russian military performance has been. and i would have expected more from them. >> why do you think they are struggling? is it the endemic corruption and other issues across russia rit l

ambassador marie yovanovitch.adlines in 2019 during former president donald trump's first impeachment inquiry, after she was called to testify in front of congress about her removal from her post in kiyv. i spoke with her moments ago about russia's invasion of ukraine and her new book "lessons from the edge." ambassador yovanovitch, thank you so much for joining us. congratulations on the book "lessons from the edge." i want to ask you about it in a moment but, of course, first, ukraine, the country you were representing the united states in as ambassador. you not only bring your professional credentials, you come from a family, your parents were russian immigrants, you were born in canada, raised in the united states. you grew up understanding european history. what do you think is at stake in this war in ukraine? >> well, i think president biden got it exactly right when he said, in the state of the union, that this is a struggle between freedom and tyranny. so this is about ukraine and vladimir putin's desire t

marie yovanovitch. thank you for being here this morning.ant to mention that the memoir is called lessons from the edge it is actually out next tuesday but you can find more about it at today.com/shop. madam ambassador, thank you very much >> thank you. >> hoda? >> savannah, thank you craig joins us now and we talk about the impact of the ukraine crisis felt here at home. >> hoda, good morning. good morning to you as well. as the war enters its third week now. the cost to fill up your gas tank has gone from bad to worse. the national average hitting a new record overnight after president biden announce ad u.s. ban on russian oil jill martin joins us for the story. >> president biden's new ban on russian oil has triggered more sticker shock at the pump today, although russia only accounts for about 8% of u.s. supply, americans are at the mercy of global prices and has president biden warning drivers that you are going to have to keep paying more this morning gas prices are breaking records again the national average hitting $4.25 a gallon 8 c

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ambassador to that country, marie yovanovitch.is the author of a new memoir: "lessons from the edge." good morning. >> good morning. >> dickerson: president biden three days in europe, brussels, and then went to poland. what did you make of that visit? >> i thought it was a hugely important trip, where the president was able to demonstrate not only american leadership nfedly important challenge onkraine broadly on the west. >> dickerson: he talked about unity. how fragile is that unity because it seems like everybody is saying all of the right things? is it so fragile that the president must go and make a visit to keep it together? >> i think one month in, there was a symbolic effect, but there was also a lot of accomplishments that were cited during the various summits, with nato and the european union, the g-7, and then obviously the trto poland where he met with president dudea, wa as well as the 82nd airborne. so i think a lot was accomplished there and a lot of announcements were made: more humanitarian assistance, more milit

ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch, and we'll talk with will hurd, a former c.i.a.icer who served in congress for six years. and then, new text messages reveal how the wife of a supreme court justice aggressively lobbied the trump white house to overturn the 2020 election. we'll talk to robert costa and the "washington post's" bob woodward, and we'll hear from adam kinzinger, a member of the committee investigating the january 6 assault on the capitol. it is all just ahead on "face the nation." >> dickerson: good morning. and welcome to "face the nation." president biden touched down early this morning from her trip through europe where he made the continued case for assistance to ukraine and sanctions against russia. neverthelessless, ukrainian president zelenskyy accused the west of lacking courage, making yet another exacerbated plea for more fighter jets and tanks. we want to begin in lviv, just a few hundred miles away from where president biden was speaking in poland. cbs correspond imitiza tyab is there. >> reporter: life really does seem to be returning back

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ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch and author of lessons from the edge a memoir reflects on her career, u.s.-russian relations and her congressional testimony during the first impeachment hearings the former president donald trump and she's interviewed by new yorker staff writer susan glasser. watch booktv every sunday on c-span2, and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online any time at booktv.org. >> at least six president recorded conversations while in office. hear many of those conversations on c-span's new podcast, presidential recordings. >> season one focuses on lyndon johnson. you'll hear about the 1964 civil rights act, the 1964 presidential campaign, the gulf of tonkin incident, the march on selma and the war in vietnam. not everyone knew they were being recorded. >> certainly johnson secretaries new because they were tasked with transcribing many of those conversations. in fact, they were the ones who make sure that the conversations were taped as johnson would singled to them through an open door between his office and there's. >> you also are some

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ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch.ssons from the edge" in which she discusses her 33 years in foreign service. we appreciate your coming on the show this morning. we would love your insight on the situation in ukraine, what you think is possible in terms of getting the ukrainians what they need without triggering a world war? >> well, i think that is the very question. how do we provide more support, how do we help save ukraine without expanding the conflict in a way that would be very detrimental to all of us. nobody wants to push putin over the edge, but i think all of us -- and i would think here in the united states pass well if you look at public opinion polling, we all want to help ukraine. we have the means to do so, to stop or at least mitigate the carnage that we are seeing in ukraine, and i think most people do want to help some more. so i think that's a really important thing. what we can't do is let putin set the conditions for this conflict. he is in a country that is not his own, that he invaded, that the

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she was a key figure in the first impeachment trial of ex-president donald trump, marie yovanovitch.ukraine and the implications for democracy itself. here is some of what she told us. >> and i guess i would just ask if you had ten minutes with every american to help them understand why it matters so much what is happening in ukraine, what is the clearest way to help americans understand the stakes. >> i think what a ukrainian would tell you is this fight is your fight. because it may seem that ukraine is so far away, and doesn't really matter. and i hear talking heads say, we have no strategic interest there. but we do. because ukraine is a struggling democracy, it has been moving forward over the last 30 years. and if we allow an autocrat to brutally subjugate a developing democracy, what comes next? because putin has gotten away with it time after time and i think this is the time that we need to stop him. unless we want to live in a world where putin makes the rules. where he decides, oh, i think i'm going to take alaska now because i used to have alaska and you didn't pay me eno

ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch.ukraine while trump was president? >> well, you know, like everybody else, i'm just speculating. >> yeah. >> but i would say two things. the first is, he's probably getting pretty much of what he wanted from president trump. so, why upset the apple cart? the second thing is, he probably thought that trump was going to be re-elected and you know, the gravy train would continue on. and finally, i think that probably most of us would agree -- and i'm guessing maybe the russians believe this as well -- president trump was pretty unpredictable, and so on the one hand, he very much admired vladimir putin and everything else. but what would he do if putin launched this kind of an offensive against ukraine? you know, not an experienced foreign policy guy, quick to grievance and so forth. what would he have done? you know, would said, i don't care about ukraine, it's all yours? or would he have taken it as an affront? >> we have some window into where his impulses were. i mean, most of the ex-c

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. >> former ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch, her new book is called lessons from the edge is out next week. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> that is all in on this thursday night, the rachel maddow show starts with ali velshi, good evening ali. >> chris, that was a remarkably poignant point, that comes up, and maria yovanovitch's book. the idea that volodymyr zelenskyy was an untested creature, and now, is a global hero. chris, thank you, we will talk to again tomorrow night. thank you at-home for joining us this hour. i am outside of a train station in hungary tonight. as you can see, trains coming, and going, and this is where ukrainian refugees have been lining up, to board the trains to budapest, for any other destination on the departure. incidentally, this train is headed towards ukraine. there are some people who are heading back, and i will explain to you why that is happening, a little later in the show. most people, the overwhelming majority of them, and here to get as far away from the war that displace them. it's three in the morning here. 24 hour

eastern on afterwards, the former ambassador the ukraine marie yovanovitch talks about customer relations and her testimony during the impeachment of donald trump. watch every sunday on c-span2 or find a schedule on your program guide or watch at any time on book tv.org. >>> c-span's new american presidents website is your one-stop guide the our nation's commanders in chief. from george washington to joe biden. find short biographies, video resources, life facts, and rich images that tell the story of their lives and presidents. all in one easy to browse c-span website. visit c-span.org/presidents to begin exploring this rich catalog of resources today. >>> thank you all for inviting me to talk about the fight the menace children's crusade against ukrainism trading cards. these are some of my favorite teaching tools at any level. and i

ambassador to russia, and also joining us is marie yovanovitch, former ambassador to ukraine.he is also author of the new book "lessons from the edge." welcome back to the two of you, and welcome. >> thank you. >> i want to start with something you wrote in your book. we have failed to call out russia's behavior in a way that russia finds persuasive or taken steps to stop it that russia finds compelling. if we stumble around it, maybe we will find ourselves in a conflict not of our choosing and not to our advantage. you wrote this sometime in the fall of 2021. >> the summer. >> here we are. >> here we are, and i think that's what the history shows. chechnya, syria, ukraine won in 2014, now ukraine in 2022. we say this fight is our fight, that this is a confrontation between freedom and tyranny, and so i think our -- we've done a lot, but i think our actions need to better match the rhetoric. >> i had a democratic congressman from chicago, mike quigley, say to me, you know, ukranians have earned it, the way they fought these first two weeks. he said, they've earned our support

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ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch made the same point that you value the freedom in a way thatrican history suggests we should value ours and not positive, not at the brightest point as a country as i'm sure you know. we have a shot through this interview of kyiv and a sense among the press that covers -- the pentagon, the state department here of real anxiety and fear as today turned to night and the two attacks from putin that were not on the front lines took place as the wreckage in mariupol becomes clear. as the targeting of civilians becomes obvious and indisputable and the arrest of museum directors and where putin gained an advantage. can you give me a sense of the damage that your country has surred over the last 14 days? >> well, there are two kinds of levels. and dimensions to the damage. physically and infrastructurely we have lost our best people. we have seen numerous civilian deaths and as mentioned yesterday by the defense ministry russia killed more citizens than soldiers in ukraine. they are doing that intentionally. plus kind of planning to invite foreign merc

ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch, will join us for an exclusive live interview tomorrow on "todaympacting your bottom line, gas prices have now started the highest average in history. $4.17 a gallon but the pinch for americans goes beyond the pump. nbc's sam brock joins us for more. good morning. >> reporter: right now we're following developing news with the biden administration expected to announce sanctions in the next hour. that announcement would be banning all russian imports of oil and facing heavy pressure from lawmakers. but still, from miami to los angeles to new york, to chicago, this is going to put even more pressure on gas prices. >> this morning, gas prices soaring to the highest average ever recorded. $4.17. >> i just filled up and it cost my $50 versus normally 30. >> reporter: up ten cents in one day and 55 cents since last week. eclipsing the previous record of $4.10 set 14 years ago. >> i haven't seen prices to this increase level. >> reporter: though they were already climbing before the war in ukraine, they are now spiking because of worries of global oil sup