this morning. thank you. with seven more depositions scheduled on capitol hill this week, the origins of the impeachment inquiry might be getting a bit lost. nbc s dash a burns gives us a look now at how it aulie vofld. it all starts with a phone call between president trump and ukrainian president zelensky in july where he seems to press zelensky to investigate his potential rival joe biden and his son hunter. turns out, it went beyond the phone call and the guy spearheading it was trump s personal lawyer, rudy giuliani who says he won t cooperate with the impeachment inquiry. giuliani was meeting with ukrainians behind the scenes and getting help from two soviet born businessmen. they were recently arrested for trying to influence u.s. politics with illegal campaign contributions. the indictment also said they promised campaign funds to an unnamed congressman.
released to the public, namely he resigned in protest over the treatment of a foreign service professional, a diplomat frankly of the highest reputation being treated as shabbily as she was, having been frankly you re talking about marie yovanovitch. yes, ambassador yovanovitch. but also and this is getting a little bit lost because of how deeply concerned he is about the administration effectively weaponizing the foreign service in order to achieve domestic political objectives. those two things should be disturbing to every american frankly because it does compromise our national security. it compromises our standing in the world, and it limits our ability to be effective with other people. they either cannot trust that we re engaging in behavior other than that of a banana republic, or they can t trust us to keep our word a la turning our back on the kurds, who i want to remind you lost more than 10,000 soldiers in the fight against isis. we lost three, i think, in that
mckinley said it pretty well in his hoping statement, which was released to the public, namely he resigned in protest over the treatment of a foreign service professional, a diplomat frankly of the highest reputation being treated as shabbily as she was, having been frankly you re talking about marie yovanovitch. yes, ambassador yovanovitch. but also and this is getting a little bit lost because of how deeply concerned he is about the administration effectively weaponizing the foreign service in order to achieve domestic political objectives. those two things should be disturbing to every american frankly because it does compromise our national security. it compromises our standing in the world, and it limits our ability to be effective with other people. they either cannot trust that we re engaging in behavior other than that of a banana republic, or they can t trust us to keep our word ala turning our back on the kurds, who i want to remind you lost more than 10,000
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