to commit publicly to investigating the bidens. not on board, jake, and so unsettled august 16th he actually drafted a memo laying out concerns there was, quote, an effort to prosecutions. what he lays out jives a lot with what we ve seen with other career diplomats, serious concerns about the administration policy often times being run ad hoc and outside of things. he was asked bluntly what was on his view of the requests to get a statement from ukrainian officials pledging investigations into political rivals of president trump. he said, quote, i do not believe the u.s. should ask other countries to engage in political investigations and prosecuions. the testimony in full more than 400 pages lays out a sweeping, systematic and damning view of the trump administration efforts as it comes to ukraine. most notably, he goes in depth
yovanovitch. also saying it was wrong of giuliani to conduct this shadow policy, that giuliani s efforts undermined the u.s. policy in ukraine and, quote, after giuliani attacked me as well as ambassador yovanovitch and the entire ambassador in his late may interview i was told by an official to keep my head down and lower my profile in ukraine. the testimony is nearly 400 pages long. one of the dynamics that comes out clearly, divisions of people on the trump team pushing ukraine to announce investigations into the bidens and those within the u.s. government pushing back because they thought it was wrong and corrupt, and ultimately would undermine u.s. national security. cnn s phil mattingly is on capitol hill for us now. george kent makes very clear in his testimony he was not on board with what he described as president trump wanting ukraine
another thing that s interesting, melanie, at no point do we have any of these people who are enabling what trump and giuliani are doing, sondlands and volkers of the world understanding maybe there s something wrong or corrupt about what they re doing. just this is what we re going to do. that s where you re starting to see the split between the kents of the world, these career diplomats, who were put there in charge of the ukraine policy. keep in mind this was supposed to be his domain. yet he had to go through these amigos, rudy giuliani. he testified that rudy giuliani had sway over the president s thinking. the reason democrats want him to testify, he can illuminate how backwards the ukraine policy was being carried out in this administration. he was told to lay low at one point. back off. because of giuliani. kent s deputy secretary of state. he is here in washington. taylor is over in ukraine. and seeing it from that side. kent was here, in an awful lot of meetings.
it. how concerned kent is about what this does for the standing and the image of the u.s. in the world standing against these kinds of political prosecutions. at one point kent testified about what he called an awkward part, aide to zelensky meeting with u.s. officials, special representative volker made the point that they had open investigations of former ukrainian president proshenko and then he said what, you mean the type of investigations you re pushing us to do on bideen and clinton sh. exactly. kent has the receipts. he came forward. you read this transcript. it lines up what we know everybody has been saying which is donald trump and rudy giuliani were running their own policy. not in the interest of the u.s. but in the interest of donald trump. and rudy giuliani.
and rudy giuliani s pocket. it was almost the pseudo state department that rudy giuliani was leading. it s surprising that republicans would want these testimonies to be out because they are devastating to donald trump. be careful what you wish for. be careful what you wish for. also breaking on the hill, the vice president s top aide who was on that july 25g9 phone call just finished testifying. she said that call was not foreman for a very specific reason. from arena to living rooms, the strategy to re-elect president trump. stay with us. with fidelity wealth management you get straightforward advice, tailored recommendations, tax-efficient investing strategies, and a dedicated advisor to help you grow and protect your wealth. fidelity wealth management.