Hes one of the more influential officials in the ukraine, correct . Yes. I believe hes one of the few that stands with lutsenko and the zelensky administration. Yes, thats correct. Look k back at hing back a , hindsight, who was doing what . He was out to get him. He said some nasty things. Sometimes that happens on social media. And are you asking me whether it is appropriate, probably not. But i would say that minister ivankoff has been as well as others both in lutsenko and
zelensky administration have been a good partner to the United States as i think i told you before. Hes a practical man and looking for partners and getting the job done. I am shocked that social media would be the sight of negative comments. You certainly can understand that the president aware of the ministers statement and aware of what mr. Lutsenko was up to and these other elements that we have discussed, there are forms of reasonable bases to wonder why there are influential elements to the ukrainian establ
the mifirst is the role of the president when it comes to appointing our ambassadors and long standing corruption in ukraine and the third is aid to ukraine. earlier this week as you know we heard from george kent and i know mr. kent is a colleague and friend who you deeply respect, in his testimony, he stated all ambassadors serve the pleasure of the president. you would agree with that statement, kr e-connecorrect? yes. he elaborated and went onto emphasize, this is not a question, everybody understands that. you agree with that? yes. although i understand, everyone understands that i serve at the pleasure of the president, is that correct? yes. just so there is no public confusion, you are still an employee of the state department, correct? yes. you said you personally asked whether it would be possible to be a fellow at georgetown university and that was arranged for me and i am grateful.
yes. let me get this straight. your effective at fighting corruption in ukraine zr fighting that corruption was important to the national security of united states and you were punished for that ultimately being removed from your post by the president of the united states, so in your opinion madame ambassador, why is it important to a non-partisan career in the foreign service? it is important to have a non-partisan career foreign service office because what we do is inherently non-pattersrti. it is not what is good for a particular party. it has to be of the greater interest of our security which is an increasingly dangerous world. could you describe for us
there is the congrats call and the problematic call in july. one of the reasons we are here is what happened between april and july. but, there was a read-out put out by the white house at the time the april congratutory call was made. now that in fact does not appear anywhere in that call. i want to ask you ambassador, why would the white house put out an inaccurate reading? why would the white house represent that the president said something about corruption when he said nothing about corruption in that call or the one in july? i can t answer that question and i don t have the visibility
you testified with the obama state department, it was not generally about burisma in corruption, it was specifically about hunter biden and burisma, is that correct? yes, it is. from your testimony, is quote, the way the question was phrased in this model q&a was what can you tell us about hunter biden being named of the board of burisma. for millions of americans watching, president obama s state department was concerned of conflict och interests that they raised themselves while prepping the ambassador nominee before her confirmation. our colleagues and chair of the committee cried foul when we dare asking that question. lastly in my 20 seconds left, i want to get it on record. in terms of defensive lethal aid, that was not provided by president obama. it was provided by president trump? yes.