ambassador to ukraine mary yvonne of it trump dismissed her from that position in a manner she called intimidating and an effort to smear her reputation.

ambassador to ukraine marie yvonne of each and spoke and she in response said that she can't speak to what the president is trying to do but i think the effect is to be intimidating i mean they're pretty strong words now also she said that she was incredibly devastated by the treatment of course seeing that this is a these live tweets are taking place we can sort of understand what she's referring to and also she spoke out like i said before i am of her concern that she felt threatened following that july 25th statement now many democrats on the in fact republicans have come out in response to this live tweeting from president trump and you know heavily criticized him for doing so hard to to be continued publicly his reporting from washington thank you so very much and we're going to stay actually in the u.s. because we've just got news coming in that donald trump's a long time the friend and adviser has been convicted now at his trial in a federal court in washington while just still has been found guilty on 7 counts of lying to congress obstruction and witness tampering all the char

was chairing the intelligence committee read those tweets out and asked her to comment and then mary yvonne image said that she felt very intimidated in the end of that process later just a little while after the speaker of the house nancy pelosi gave a press conference and made very clear that 6 witness intimidation is a crime and we are now in a situation where the democratic party is seriously discussing whether this could be an additional article off impeachment and that would be witness tampering and if that's not all enough to take in the middle of this hearing just not far away from where the hearing was taking place a court a jury just found a long time ally trouble roger stone guilty of obstructing obstructing a correctional investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election and that's a slightly separate issue from what's going on in the impeachment inquiry but fit that together for us how do those 2 things come together. well it's certainly strengthening the democratic position don't forget roger stone was president one of president trump top. president trump's top advi

ambassador to ukraine mary yvonne of it trump dismissed her from that position in a manner she calledintimidating and an effort to smear her reputation.

impeachment inquiry hearings against donald trump continue on capitol hill the new star witness is marie yvonne of it and she is a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine who was removed from her post 6 months ago now donald trump definitely does not hold her in high esteem that's what he actually tweeted during her testimony everywhere marie over no bitch when she started off in somalia how did that go then fast forward to ukraine with a new ukrainian president spoke on friday ripley about her in my 2nd phone call with him it is a u.s. president's absolute right to appoint ambassador has now she testified that she was not part of the biden family scandal regarding natural gas in ukraine and furthermore she was not part of any effort to leak information from ukraine during the 2016 election furthermore she testifies that donald trump is intimidating her and that he's responsible for all the wrongdoing and so is what amir putin well i mean president putin must have been aware that there were concerns in the u.s. about russian meddling in the 2016 elections and what the potential was for russian meddli

ambassador to ukraine marie yvonne a bitch i'm just going to quote some of the things that she said you've already said that she said that there was a smear campaign against her which was led by president drums own personal attorney rudy giuliani and his associates she said that they were it was a campaign of this information against a sitting ambassador using an official back channels and that she added that these events should concern everyone in this room she also said if are cheaper chief representative is kneecapped it limits our effectiveness to safeguard the vital national security interests of the united states they are very damning words and pretty dramatic it's a very dramatic opening today 2nd day after what began as a pretty personal statement from marie ivanovna chair in the building behind me and give us a little bit of the back story brought broad strokes if you can because what is what is the story because according to the democrats she was unequivocally the casualty of a fresh air campaign waged by the white house. you're absolutely right now maria von of the former ambass

there was a time line prepared which set out all of the material about biden his son hunter and marie yvonne a bitch trying to set up in other words a paper trail for the secretary of state of these alleged alleged activities by biden and yavanna bitch that wouldn't have just wanted an investigation by ukraine the impeachment inquiry is looking into whether the white house engaged in a cold war. ordinated campaign to withhold nearly $400000000.00 in military aid to ukraine until the president of act on tree publicly announced that he would investigate president trump's chief political rival former vice president joe biden president trump denies that accusation i want nothing that's what i want for you that's what i said i want nothing the newly released documents support this damning statement from embassador gordon sunland was there a quid pro quo the answer is yes everyone was in the loop we kept the leadership of the state department and the n.s.c. informed of our activities and that included communications with secretary of state pompei o. the state department had refused to give those d

president tweeting and real donald trump, the president writing the following quote everywhere marie yvonne news bench wet, turn red. she started off in somalia, how did that go. then fast forward to ukraine where the nuclear ukrainian spoke unfavorably about her and i see a phone call with him. it is a u.s. president absolute right to avoid ambassadors. president trump, will that happen as they hearing was underway in the opening statement by chairman adam schiff in the ranking republican member and then mary jovanovich is open state statement. this question to the ukrainian investor. the former investor to ukraine. mary jovanovich. [background sounds] >> up talk about transparency. i am the most transparent president in history. i tell you about what tempering is. it's when a guy like 50 shift, doesn't let us have lawyers tampering is when schiff doesn't let us have witnesses and doesn't let us speak. i've been watching today for the first time. i started watching and it is really sad we do see people not allowed to ask questions and it is totally nobody has ever had such horrible due pro

the men and women who serve in dangerous foreign post throughout the globe that what happened to marie yvonne of it. was wrong. that's your heel the floor is yours thank you congressman is using i. entirely your description of out of it. the only bed matter when i took this job but immediately i understood that we had an exceptional officer doing exceptional work at a very critical embassy in kieve and during my visit to kiev i was very impressed by what she was doing there to the extent that i asked her if she'd be willing to stay if that was a possibility because we had a gap coming up i support and believe in the institution and the people of the state department i am one of them i have been for 35 years all of us are committed to america's national security and we are the best group of diplomats anywhere in the world and that support extends to all state officers who have testified before this committee if i may i'd like to read a letter that the undersecretary for management wrote on november 18th to the ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee in response to a communicat

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there was a time line prepared which set out all of the material about biden his son hunter and marie yvonne a bitch trying to set up in other words a paper trail for the secretary of state of these alleged alleged activities by biden and yavanna bitch that weren't enough just wanted an investigation by ukraine the impeachment inquiry is looking into whether the white house engaged in a coordinated campaign to withhold nearly $400000000.00 in military aid to ukraine until the president of that country publicly announced that he would investigate president trump's chief political rival former vice president joe biden president trump denies the. accusation i want nothing. that's what i want for you that's what i said i want nothing the newly released documents support this damning statement from embassador gordon sunland was there a quid pro quo the answer is yes everyone was in the loop we kept the leadership of the state department and the n.s.c. informed of our activities and that included communications with secretary of state pompei o. the state department had refused to give those docume

and his son hunter or a board member do you crane gas company and to discredit the us and us to marie yvonne of edge who was subjected to 8 months on a campaign of disinformation by giuliani till she was moved from her post in may now we don't have anything that says that those documents were specifically provided to pump a 0 but the day before pompei 0 2nd column giuliani there was a time line prepared which set out all of the material about biden his son hunter and marie of on a bitch trying to set up in other words a paper trail for the secretary of state of these alleged alleged activities by biden and yavanna bitch that warned an invest wanted an investigation by ukraine and the white house won't let them pay a mil they have and bolton testify so we can't hear their version of events the president himself continues to state that there was no quid pro quo he continues to peddle the ukraine election interference line despite the testimony that we hear the heard this week he also said just yesterday that he wants the impeachment process to go to trial i mean why would he want that. because

obstacle to the scheme days after the new ukrainian president was elected trump ordered the recall of marie yvonne of each the american ambassador in kieve was known for pushing anti corruption efforts trump and also cancel vice president mike pence his participation in the aga aeration of presidents alinsky on may 20th and instead sent a delegation headed by energy secretary rick perry and bastards to the e.u. gordon son and ambassador kurt volker these 3 returned from keven briefed president trump on their encouraging 1st interactions with the new ukrainian administration hopes that trump would agree to an early meeting with ukrainian president were soon diminished however when trump pushed back according to volcker he just didn't believe it he was skeptical and he also said that's not what i hear i hear you know he's got some terrible people around him present trump also told them he believed that ukraine tried to take him down he told the 3 amigos talk to rudy and they did one of those interactions took place a week before the july 25th phone call between trump and selenski and a bastra volcke

gratian white house press secretary, the president has been monitoring the opening statement by marie yvonne is. we are getting on a number of fronts including reference to her earlier position as ambassador to small you saying everywhere maria give on which went turn bad. she start adding some all you had that go? and password ukraine with an ukraine president spoken favorably about her in my second phone call with it. it is a u.s. the right to appoint ambassador. ambassador yovanovitch -- he went on to say serving at the pleasure of the president the president has a foreign policy give it then proceeded administration is called quite simply america first. with all of that i have more for ukraine -- that obama has. again, that from the president tweeting. earlier today the ambassador responded to somebody presidents comments during her testimony. let's listen. >> first of all, ambassador yovanovitch, this it as a chance to confirm or deny an ambassador, do not yes, advice and consent. >> would you like to respond to the presidents attack that everywhere you went turn bad? >> well, i mean, i

night :00 am eastern on c-span two with testimony from former u.s. , mariedor to the ukraine yvonne at -- marie yovano vitch. watch on c-span, listen wherever you are with the free c-span radio app. house speaker nancy pelosi talked with reporters about the testimony in the impeachment inquiry hearing. the speaker referred to a portion of the testimony calling the president's actions an act of bribery. ms. pelosi: good morning, everyone. >> good morning. ms. pelosi: here we are with a week that started off with veterans day. a wonderful day. 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, armistice day, a day we now observe as veterans day. every day is veterans day for us. on tuesday, we passed a packet of bills, nine bills, to improve the lives of our veterans, our heroes in uniform. among the bills we were very proud to pass the deborah sampson act, which reduces barriers for women veterans to access v.a., including anti-harassment initiatives. this has a broad base of support , and we are very proud to be passing it. the day after veterans day. monday night when i came into town, i went to the

its -- marie yvonne of what we have seen so far is republicans trying to make this an issue about hunteriden. adam schiff is rejecting that. we will see that talking pressure from republicans continuing in the days headed up to this hearing. host: it really is this intersection of two events. public impeachment inquiry, the potential of a government shutdown. to have been reporting on this as well. what have you learned in recent days and what, potentially, could happen? there is talk of december 13. initially, richard shelby, the incorporators in charge of the issue, talked about kicking the can to february or march. we don't see congress having the bandwidth to deal with media spending -- with spending and impeachment. nancy pelosi says this is the let's try. it done, floated the idea of a short-term resolution to continue to try to talk. the problem still remains to be that remains trump's border wall ,- the problem still remains trump's border wall, it's a real obstacle. democrats do not want to pay for this. allowing a little bit more money , but preventing future transfers. it coul

highly respected and effective diplomat based on public falsehoods and smears against ambassador yvonn marie yovanovitch's character. now i'm going to go here again, we are looking at this in real time, looks like we have, kind of a compendium about what is said here and i'm just kind of looking here to try to parse this a little bit. again, this is coming at a real time here, when did you first become aware that rudy giuliani had an interest in communicating with anyone in the ukraine? in that november, december time frame of 2018. in the same time period, rudy giuliani met with the general prosecutor of the ukraine. from your staff members and your conversations, what did you learn about giuliani's interest in ukraine? the answer, from yovanovitch, there have been a number of meetings and they were looking at how he was trying to hurt the u.s. those are at first blush twenty-first and initial readings of what was told to investigators in those closed-door interviews with the former ambassador to the ukraine. that's going to be key. there were supposed to be depositions today, four differen

night :00 am eastern on c-span two with testimony from former u.s. , mariedor to the ukraine yvonne at -- marie

ukraine marie of out of it on april 29 a senior state department official told her that although she had done nothing wrong president trump had lost confidence in her with the sidelining of the yvonne of age the stage was set for the establishment of an irregular channel in which giuliani and later others including gordon saw him land an influential donor to the president's inauguration now serving as a bastard to the european union could advance the president's personal and political interests. you have on of its replacement in kiev investor bill taylor is a west point graduate and a vietnam veteran as he began to better understand the scheme through the summer of 262019 he pushed back informing deputy assistant secretary kent and others about a plan to condition us government actions and funding on the performance of political favors by the ukrainian government favors intended for president trump it would undermine our security and our elections several key events in this scheme took place in the month of july on july 10th them bastards saw men and formed a group of us and ukrainian officials meeting at the white house that according to you chief of staff mick mulvaney a white ho

ambassador to ukraine, maria bono which -- marie yvonne of itch -- ivanovic. live wherever you are with the free c-span radio app. >> friday, the second day of the house intelligence impeachment inquiry hearings. the committee will hear from u.s. ambassador to ukraine. next, debate from the house floor where members spoke about the impeachment inquiry. mr. speaker, we are nvolved in a very serious process to determine whether the the united states as committed high crimes and misdemeans. the constitution provides for he removal of high officials who violate their oath of violate the powers of their offic and who commit treason or high crimes and misdemeanors. process, rse ofhat e have been involved in numerous people asking for the whiseblower o testify. not speak to the substance of the consideration ongoing with respect to the impeachment of the president of the united states. want to speak pointedly from so many that identifie.ower be he whistleblower, of course, has no direct evidence to offer. thehistleblower is is somebody who respded to, if something, s