able to see beyond to the hype all right will bring us the view from moscow d w z or chateau thanks yuri let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. lawmakers have wrapped up public impeachment hearings against president donald trump counsel to david holmes describe the overheard telephone calls about a probe into trump's democratic rival joe biden from a white house adviser a few and a hill rejected claims that ukraine not russia meddled in the u.s. election. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been indicted for bribery forward and breach of trust in 3 separate cases he's denied wrongdoing and says that the colonel case is politically motivated and this new law is still battling to stay in power off to september's elections produced no clear winner. for german chancellor angela merkel's christian democratic union has kicked off a 2 day party conference in leipzig officially the question of party leadership is not on the agenda but it is a still expected to play iraq since anglo-american announced last year that she would not run as chan

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one of the main proponents to get yovanovitch out of office was no other than yuri yuriy lutsenko.he same lutsenko who was in negotiations to pay giuliani hundreds of thousands of dollars. now the other major reason why we are paying attention to this story and watching it very closely is about president trump. we know the president is already distancing himself from his personal attorney. we heard him in that o'reilly interview essentially saying i never directed him to do anything. this gives the president and the white house an out. they can paint giuliani as a rogue actor here and say that he was just doing his own business while he was there. so these are two lines to watch very closely as the story develops. >> kristen holmes, there's always a new nugget every single day in this investigation. thank you. joining us to discuss is cnn political analyst karen demurgen for "the washington post" and cnn legal analyst shan wu, defense attorney and former federal prosecutor. shan, if giuliani was trying to make these business deals. we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars, wi

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ambassador taylor received a communication that mr giuliani was still talking with ukrainian prosecutor yuri let sankoh in whatsapp messages with ambassador volker and i am bassett or taylor wrote to us as follows i just had a meeting with andre n.v. diem referring to ukraine foreign minister of a diem pre-strike 0. taylor said the ukrainians were quote very concerned about what lute sankoh told them that according to our g meaning rudy giuliani there's a lenski potest meeting will not happen volcker responded good grief please tell the d.m. to let the official u.s. government representatives speak for the us sankoh has his own self interest here taylor confirmed that he had communicated that message to the ukrainians and he added i briefed alric this afternoon on this referring to state department councilor rick direct will again everyone's in the loop 3 things are critical about this whatsapp exchange 1st while the ukrainians were in washington at the white house mr giuliani was communicating with the ukrainians without our knowledge embassador taylor ambassador volker and i were all surpr

one of those corrupt people prosecutor general yury let's franco yes i believe so. was another one of those corrupt people and sent those predecessor another corrupt prosecutor general named victor show can. apparently so although i've never met him at some point did you come to learn that both let sankoh in show can we're in touch with a rudy giuliani president's trumps or and representative yes in fact it did giuliani try to overturn a decision that you participated in to deny show going to visa yes that is what i was told and that denial was based on mr show conscription yes that's true. and was it mr lenz who the lewd sankoh among others who coordinated with mr giuliani to peddle false accusations against you as well as the bidens yes that is my understanding and where these smears also amplified by the president's son donald trump jr as well as certain hosts on fox yes yes that is the case in the face of this mere campaign did colleagues at the state department try to get a statement of some the force for you from secretary pompei oh yes were they successful no

is definitely a sign of goodwill this is a step towards creating greater openness at these talks as yuri mentioned that planned for early december i think the biggest step in terms of ukrainian public awareness of the issue was the return of the sailors who had been taken into custody at the time the ships were impounded november last year and that really was a real moment here in ukraine huge public attention huge emotion riding high as those people touched so this is part of the steps to really change the tone. but in terms of. the military balance its needs not releasing you can step this is all about the atmospherics ok talking about atmospherics what is the situation like in the donbass region after 5 years of conflict nic. well this is a frozen conflict geographically but that doesn't mean that the shooting doesn't continue every day soldiers die regularly severely wounded civilians are still dying albeit less often than was the case a few years ago there have been supportive signs in recent weeks and months there's been partial troop withdrawals in very small parts of a 400 kilome

yuri syria's state news agency said his son and granddaughter were killed islamic jihad says a jury survived. the size of the explosion is unacceptable that i think that many of his execution was so huge and it is unacceptable to hit the civilian area in such way as throughout the day the rocket fire and strikes continued israel's military said it was targeting islamic jihad perhaps a message that it wasn't seeking a direct confrontation with hamas which controls the gaza strip and whose military wing represents gaza's biggest fighting force in a statement on tuesday benjamin netanyahu said that israel did not seek a wider escalation yet he must have known that with a targeted assassination such as this and the inevitable rocket fire that would come in response the risks were very high much now depends on how hamas decides to respond it has spoken out very strongly in solidarity with islamic jihad if it matches those words with a big escalation in rocket fire as well and the risks of a wider conflict only rise every force at al-jazeera southern israel. unarmed man has shot and critically wou

relationship with former president poroshenko and some of his allies including prosecutor general yury sankoh who resisted fully empowering truly and truly independent anti-corruption institutions that would help ensure that no ukrainians however powerful were above the law despite this resistance the ambassador in the embassy kept pushing anti-corruption and other priorities of our policy towards ukraine beginning in march $21000.00 the situation at the embassy and in ukraine changed dramatically. specifically the 3 priorities of security economy and justice and our support for ukrainian democratic resistance to russian aggression became overshadowed by a political agenda promoted by former new york new york city mayor rudy giuliani and a qadri of officials operating with a direct channel to the white house that change began with the emergence of press reports critical of the mastery of on image and machinations by then prosecutor general lute sango and others to discredit her in mid march 29 an embassy colleague learned from a ukrainian contact that mr lu sankoh had complained that a

what we know that the man targeted was yuri that he's a political leader from islamic jihad that so far there's been no as is quite often the case no claiming of this by the israelis as far as palestinian islamic jihad is concerned they say that he was not killed in this explosion at this building but that is sung was so it waiting to see what emerges or definitively on that front the other issue to raise is that of course this is a particularly sensitive time politically here in israel for such a big military decision to have been made there has been some criticism for instance the leader of the palestinian israeli joint list group of parties has accused of being cynical using a scorched earth policy to try and stay in power as he tries to form a unity government after the 2nd inclusive election in a row many others though are rallying behind netanyahu including his main opponent benny gantz and indeed the israeli prime minister the israeli president rather saying that this is a time for unity and a time to put israel's security above all else. life and must face on very thankless some

>> yuri was a politician of long-standing. he had been minister of interior after the orange revolution, the u.s. embassy had good relations with him for years, he was imprisoned by president yanukovych, came out, elected majority leader of poroshenko, the president's party and became prosecutor general in the spring of 2016. >> what was your experience with ambassador yovanovitch? was she working hard to combat corruption in ukraine, sir? >> she was dedicated as is every u.s. government official in ukraine to help ukrainians overcome the legacy of corruption, which they have made a number of important steps since 2014. >> so in fact before all of this happened, you and your superiors at the state department asked the ambassador to extend her time in the ukraine, correct, sir? >> that is correct. >> did you support her extension? >> i asked her to extend until the end of this year, to get through the election cycle in ukraine and undersecretary hill in march asked her to stay until 2020. >> some in ukraine probably disliked he

his attorney told me rudy guilliani was not paid by the ukraines or yury the top prosec. . it raises questions how many hats rudy guilliani is wearing at one time, conflicts of interest, the president's personal attorney trying to advance his interests in ukraine at the same time considering taking up the ukraine's interests for them. >> very important story. as scrutiny of guiliani continues president trump appears to be distancing himself from his personal lawyer as he did michael cohen. kaitlan collins is near mar-a-lago where the president is spending thanksgiving. he has a new worry and contradicting himself when it comes to rudy guilliani, is that right? >> reporter: yes. it is similar to michael cohen once those hush payments were coming under scrutiny. the president made sure to praise guiliani his long time friend and personal attorney in this interview but claims he did not direct guiliani to go to ukraine and seek out these investigations on his behalf. >> you have to ask that to rudy. i don't even know -- i think he was going to go to ukraine and canceled the tr

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giuliani pursuing an employment contract with yuri poroshenko known for corrupt practices. and marie yovanovitch said under oath, what was said about lutsenko. >> who else was involved in this concerted campaign against you? >> some members of the press in mayor giuliani's circle. >> who from ukraine? >> in ukraine, i think -- well, mr. lutsenko, the prosecutor general. mr. shokin, his predecessor certainly. >> and i believe you testified earlier that mr. lutsenko had a reputation for being corrupt. is that right? >> that's correct. >> let's go to one of the reporters breaking this story. matt zapatosky reporter for the "washington post." what are you learning? >> reporter: basically at the same time that rudy is working with mr. lutsenko on this effort to oust ambassador yovanovitch, to investigate the president's political opponents, rudy is trying to strike up a business deal with him. he's trying to arrange a contract where rudy's firm will get $200,000, or $300,000 as a retainer fee purportedly to do some work helping lutsenko with an asset recovery idea he wanted to d

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>> to my understanding the then prosecutor general of ukraine now ex yuri lefzenko met in january a second meeting and through new york gave an interview to john solomon then of the hill in early march and the campaign was launched on march 20th. >> a corrupt ukrainian prosecutor gave an interview to a reporter in the united states and made claims that the ambassador be provided officials with a "do not prosecute" list. sir, do you have any reason to believe this is true? >> i have every reason to believe it is not true. >> what was the reputation of the man who made these allegations, sir? >> you'ury longstanding, good relations with him for years. he was imprisoned by the pr president, came out, elected of the then president's party and became prosecutor general in spring of 2016. >> what was your experience with ambassador yovanovitch? was she working hard to combat corruption in ukraine, sir? >> dedicated as is every u.s. government official in ukraine to help ukrainians overcome the legacy of corruption, which they actually have made a number of important steps since 2014. >> in fact,

first, yuri lutsenko. he provided information to use against yovanovitch. said that she gave him a do not prosecute list of people off limits to prosecute. he later walked back that claim. he also spoke with giuliani about opening an investigation into the 2016 election. and burisma. he was proceeded in his role by victor. he claim he was investigated in his job. giuliani used that to claim biden interfered to stop an investigation into his son. there is no evidence to support that claim. earlier this year shokin sought a visa to travel to the u.s. yovanovitch testified that it was denied because he was viewed as corrupt. giuliani tried to overturn that decision. now the jue associates. giuliani did not work alone. he was assisted in ukraine efforts by lev parnas and igor fruman. prosecutors alleged they've been advocating for the remove of yovanovitch. they met with the former congressman pete sessions of texas who wrote in 2018 to secretary of state mike pompeo that yovanovitch had bad-mouthed the president. according to the indictment, they pledged to do

another deal had giuliani respecting yuri le sen coe. he was working with giuliani. scrutiny, president trump is looking to distance himself. kaitlan collins is traveling with the president in west palm beach. >> abby and christine, it sounds a lot like what the president used to say about michael cohen is now saying about rudy giuliani. praising him in a new interview but saying he did not direct giuliani to go to ukraine and seek out investigations on his behalf. not only contradicting what the president said in the past but also what his aides said. in the july transcript of the call that the president ordered to be released, he urges the ukrainian leader not once, twice, but three times, to speak to giuliani. talking about the debunked theory of ukraine interfering in the election instead of russia. the president is now telling bill o'reilly in a new interview, he wasn't the one that told giuliani to do his dealings in ukraine. >> you have to ask that to rudy. i know he was going to go to ukrai ukraine. i think he canceled a trip. rudy has other clients other tha

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a new prosecutor general, yuri letsenko, took over the case and moved quickly.o pay back taxes. hunter biden was found to have broken no laws because the corruption occurred before he joined the board. hunter left the burisma board early this year. >> letsenko as prosecutor general was saying, we solved the issue of burisma, case is closed. >> letsenko was the man who closed the case against burisma. >> but then a strange thing happened. earlier this year, the new prosecutor did an about-face. stating that the burisma case and the bidens' involvement might be worth a second look. why the change of heart? when i interviewed letsenko he said he'd met multiple times with the president's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani. were you in regular contact with him? >> no, no. it was -- there were irregular contacts. but yes, i have spoken with him. maybe ten times. >> ten times? >> maybe. >> always about this issue? >> this and other even political issues. >> why, having closed the burisma case, would letsenko want to reopen it? >> he was trying to save his position by const

in their efforts, the two connected giuliani with the ukrainian prosecutor general ate the ti, yuri lutsenko lutsenko was a former prosecutor in ukraine and he is somebody that at one point in the past year said that he had information that could be t damagithe bidens and was working closely with rudy giuliani in his effort to, as giuliani saw it, expose some kindf malfeasance by the bid family. now, it's worth saying that there is no such evidence of that. alcindor: giuliani's meetings with lutsenko are an important thread in the impeachment investigation. as for parnas and fruman, they ran into their own legal troubles. >> this investigation is about corrupt behavior. deliberate lawbreaking. >> alcindor: the two have been indicted by federal prosecutors for allegedly illegally funneling campaign contributions to get the u.s. ambassador to ukraine removed from her post, among other charges. >> my knowledge in the spring and summer of th year about any involvement of mr. giuliani was in connection with a campaign against our ambassador to ukraine trump's nominee to be ambassador of russia, d

particularly yuri schennco and they were meddling false information in order to extract revenge against those who had exposed their misconduct, including u.s. diplomats and reformed minded civil society groups in ukraine. during the late spring and summer of 2019, i became alarmed as those efforts bore fruit. they led to the ouster of ambassador yovanovitch and hampered u.s. efforts to stab rapport in the zelensky commission in ukraine. the investigations were now affecting ukraine, leveraging president zelensky's desire for a white house meeting. there are and always have been conditionality placed on our sovereign loan guarantees for ukraine. conditions include anti-corruption reforms as well as meeting larger stability goals and social safety nets. the international monetary fund does the same thing. congress and the executive branch work together to put conditionability on some security assistance in the ukraine security assistance initiative. regarding my testimony today, i will do my best to answer your questions, questions that will involve issues, conversations and documents tha

yuri syria's stake. news agency said his son and granddaughter were killed islamic jihad says a jury survived mahler specialist to see them all the size of the explosion is unacceptable and the idea that i think that many of his execution was so huge and it is unacceptable to hit the civilian area in such way as throughout the day the rocket fire and strikes continued israel's military said it was targeting islamic jihad perhaps a message that it wasn't seeking a direct confrontation with hamas which controls the gaza strip and whose military wing represents garza's biggest fighting force in a statement on tuesday benjamin netanyahu said that israel did not seek a wider escalation yet he must have known that with a targeted assassination such as this and the inevitable rocket fire that would come in response the risks were very high much now depends on how hamas decides to respond it has spoken out very strongly in solidarity with islamic jihad if it matches those words with a big escalation in rocket fi

. >> was one of those corrupt people prosecutor general yuri lutsenko? >> yes, i believe so. >> was one of those another corrupt general prosecutor? >> apparently so though i've never met him. >> at some point did you come to learn that both lutsenko and shokin were in touch with rudy guiliani president trump's lawyer and representative? >> yes. >> in fact, did guiliani try to overturn a decision you participated in to deny shokin a visa? >> yes. that is what i was told. >> and that denial was based on his corruption? >> yes. that's true. >> was it mr. lutsenko among others who coordinated with mr. guiliani to peddle false accusations against you as well as the bidens? >> yes. that is my understanding. >> and were these smears also amplified by the president's son donald trump jr. as well as certain hosts on fox? >> yes, yes. that is the case. >> in the face of this smear campaign did colleagues at the state department try to get a statement of support for you from secretary pompeo? >> yes. >> were they successful? >> no. >> did you come to learn that th

or theirs is mercurial man or send the wrong people a dangerous message i think it really depends yuri ill manners send the wrong people a dangerous message i think it really depends on the particular region or functional objective that we're trying to achieve certainly was on that particular region or functional objective that we're trying to achieve certainly when it comes to what we now see as america's strategic rivals on the world stage when it comes to what we now see as america's strategic rivals on the world stage china russia iran north korea that's a deliberate strategy china russia iran north korea that's a deliberate strategy on the part of the trumpet ministration to keep rivals in competitors off balance and to keep it in the part of the trumpet ministration to keep rivals in competitors off balance and to keep himself completely unpredictable as he believes he mastered as a negotiator himself completely unpredictable as he believes he mastered as a negotiator short of real estate developer over decades of success in the u.s. but i think there is a real estate developer o

"giuliani began negotiations with yuri lutsenko about a possible agreement in february. in the agreement giuliani's company would receive payment to represent lutsenko as the ukrainian so the to recover assets he believed had been stolen from the government in kiev." the "post" also reports agreements were never executed and there is no indication giuliani was paid. giuliani for his part told the "wall street journal" today he was in talks with ukraine but it was for even more money than that. giuliani said lults enko asked him to represent both the ukrainian ministry of justice and lutsenko personally on two matters. the journal goes on to report "giuliani said he subsequently drew up two retainer agreements for a total of about 500 large and gave them to lutsenko. the next day giuliani decided he couldn't represent lutsenko personally because he believed doing so would pose a conflict with his representation of the president." giuliani said he declined the ministry of justice contract and was never paid a penny for that. on sunday giuliani denied any financial interest

not only in terms of a lot of practices that yuri mentioned which are very problematic also all sit tightin the region, they are relying largely on economic and political power. they see the united states with a desire to be the global policeman having that military, and getting involved in domestic politics as something is costly and the reason for our decline. when i read chinese strategist, the title of the military is yes they want to be dominant militarily in the region but that they just want to have the economic and political power beyond that to ensure that brother countries accommodate their interests. the book you often talk about china wanting to dominate the world. the myopia flight that a vote of a article of the self superpower is and i do say they wanted military dominate the region and on the pain to expand beyond northeast as yet in southeast asia and may be included south and asia prevented don't say they want to be able to challenge united states military and you wrote for. raven and the middle east. his note also how you see china trying to exercise its power. >> how i

. >> sir, i want to turn your attention to uryou yuri lute lu, the former prosecutor general in ukraine has made various claims about various americans, right? >> corre >> correct. >> you are unaware of any factual basis for his accusations against yovanovitch, corre right? >> correct. >> he was also a source for an article by john solomon in the hill, right? >> that is correct. >> and you said that key elements of that article as well as his accusations are false, right? >> correct. >> lutsenco is not a credible source, right? >> correct. >> sir, the other side claims that there was absolutely no pressure on this july 25th phone call. i think that's what we heard earlier, right? >> i believe so. >> and you have termed what president trump asked in terms of investigations on that phone call as a demand, correct? >> correct. >> and you've pointed out the large power disparity between president trump on the one hand and president zelensky on the other hand, correct? >> yes. >> there was pressure on that phone call, right? >> the ukrainians needed the meeting, the ukrainian subsequently, w

giuliani was still talking with ukrainian prosecutor yuri lutsenko in whatsapp messages with ambassador volker and i. ambassador taylor wrote to us as follows. just had a meet with andriy and vadym prystaiko. he said the, cranie i ukrainiany concerned about what lutsenko told them that, according to rg -- rudy giuliani, the zelensky/potus meeting will not happen. volker responded, good grief. please tell the dean to let the official u.s. government representatives speak for the u.s. lutsenko has his own self-interest here. taylor confirmed that he had communicated that message to the ukrainians, and he added, i briefed ulrich this afternoon on it referring to ulrich brechbuhl. again, everyone is in the loop. three things are critical about this whatsapp exchange. first, while the ukrainians were in washington at the white house, mr. giuliani was communicating with the ukrainians without our knowledge. ambassador taylor, ambassador volker and i were all surprised by this. second, mr. giuliani was communicating with the reportedly corrupt ukrainian prosecutor lutsenko and discussing wheth

. >> was one of those corrupt people yuri list thank. >> i think so. --was his present stressor predecessor, victor? >> apparently so, although i've never met him. >> at some point, did you learn that both were in touch with rudy giuliani, president trump's lawyer and representative? >> yes. >> did giuliani try to overturn a decision that you participated and to deny him a visa? >> that is what i was told. >> and that denial was told on mr. shokin's corruption? >> that is true. were false accusations peddled against you in the bidens? >> that is my understanding. >> where these smears ample mind -- amplified by the president's son and certain hosts on fox? yes, that is the case. >> in the face of this smear campaign, did colleagues at the state department tried to get a statement of support from you -- for you from secretary pompeo? >> yes. >> where they successful? >> no -- were they successful? >>. >> did you come to learn that they could not issue a statement because it would be undercut other president? >> yes. >> where you told that though you did

giuliani was still talking with lieu cranian prosecutor yuri lutsenko and messages with ambassador volker and i, ambassador taylor and i wrote to us as follows, just had a meeting with andre invadim, referring to ukraine foreign minister prosteiko. taylor said the ukrainians were "very concerned about what lutsenko told them that according to r.g." meaning rudy giuliani, "the zelensky/potus meeting will not hop." volker responded "good grief, please tell the dean to let the official u.s. government representatives speak for the u.s. lutsenko has his own self-interest here." taylor confirmed that he had communicated that message to the ukrainians, and he added, "i briefed ulrich this afternoon on this," referring to state department counsellor ulrich brechtbul. again, everyone's in the loop. three things are critical about what whatsapp exchange. first while the ukrainians were in washington at the white house mr. giuliani was communicating with the ukrainians without our knowledge. om bass for taylor, ambassador volker and i were also surprised by this. second, mr. giuliani was communicat

will it wrap up soon enough ahead of the first primary election in yuri? -- in february.m senior democratic leaders, saying it will impede the democrats' chances of defeating president trump. how fractured is the democratic party and how weak is it to wrap up? stephanie: from the vote last week, there were only two democrats that voted against proceedings in this way. the democrats are united. it looks that they will vote to support and pass articles of impeachment when they get there. the question is timing. they want to move quickly. can they do that? do they wrap up with articles of impeachment before christmas, which there have been some predictions that is where they want to end up. as it dragged on into january? -- does it dragged on into january? it is a determining factor if it will interfere with the democratic primary. francine: thank you, stephanie. president trump's biggest challenge may not be also be the other candidates during a pitchman, but the stake of the economy. the s&p 500 gained, but the performance was not record-setting. truman.s harry how will th

. >> sir, i wanted to turn your attention to yuri lutsenko, and you called him a disruptive actor in your opening statement? >> did. >> and he is the former prosecutor general who has made various claims against americans, correct? >> yes. >> and he has made claims against ambassador yovanovitch? >> that is correct. >> and he was the source for an article by john solomon in "the hill. " >> that is correct. >> and you said that key elements in the accusations are false. >> correct. >> and leschenko is not a credible source, correct. >> correct. >> sir, the other side claims that there was absolutely no precious on this july 25th, phone call, and i think that is what we heard earlier, right? >> i believe so. and you have termed what president trump asked in terms of investigations on that phone call as a demand, correct? >> correct. >> and you have pointed out the large power disparity between president trump on the one hand and president zelensky on the other, correct? >> yes. >> there was pressure on that phone call, right? >> the ukrainians needed the meeting, the ukrainians subsequ

i had the suggestion or indication that when yuri asked questions about the july tent meetings, and there were two meetings, one in investor bolton's presence and another in the wardroom that there was more you had to say about that. you want to walk us through that in more detail? dr. hill: the reference abbasid or bolton made was after i returned from the boardroom and related to him what i heard. there was a sequencing of meetings which i know there has been some concern about the sequencing here and discrepancies between various depositions. what happened immediately after the meeting that investor bolton called a little short was he told me to hold back in the room. he was escorting out the along withisitors secretary perry and ambassadors volker and sondland. i guess they wanted to take a quick photograph outside his office. i know secretary perry and others tweeted out that photograph. there's a picture of all of them standing just outside of a bolton's office. he came back in and at that point, i guess they were already moving down to the boardroom. because on the way out of inves

. >> was one of those corrupt people prosecutor general yuri lutsenko >> i believe so. >> was another named vikter shokin? >> apparently so although i've never met him. >> at some point did you come to learn that both lutsenko and shokin were in touch with rudy giuliani president trump's lawyer and representative? >> yes. >> in fact, the giuliani try to overturn a decision you participated in to deny shokin a visa. >> yes, that's what i was told. >> that denial was based on mr. shokin's corruption? >> yes, that's true. >> and was it mr. lutsenko among others who coordinated with mr. giuliani to peddle false accusations against you as well as the bidens? >> yes, that's my understanding. >> and were these smears amplified by the president's son, donald trump junior as well as certain hosts on fox? >> yes. that is the case. >> in the face of this smear campaign did colleagues at the state department try to get a statement of support for you from secretary pompeo? >> yes. >> were they successful? >> no. >> did you come to learn that they couldn't issue such a statement because they feared

relationship with former president poroshenko and some of his allies including prosecutor general yuri lutsenko. who resisted fully empowering, truly independent anti-corruption institutions that would help insure that no ukrainians, however powerful, were above the law. despite this resistance the ambassador and embassy kept pushing that with our policy toward ukraine. beginning in march 2019, the situation at the embassy and in ukraine changed dramatically. specifically, the three priorities of security, economy and justice and our support for ukrainian democratic resistance to russian aggression became overshadowed by a political agenda promoted by former new york city mayor rudy giuliani and a cadre of officials operating with a direct channel to the white house. that change began with the emergence of press reports critical of ambassador yovanovitch and mass nations by lutsenko and others to discredit her. in mid-march 2019 an embassy colleague learned from a ukraine colleague that mr. lutsenko had complained that ambassador yovanovitch had quote destroyed him with her refusal to