of what can you do about donald trump? and i think by expressing her amazement and outrage and just disbelief that the president of the united states in the oval office could be captured by a corrupt ukrainian interest that sought to remove an american ambassador, she gave the best statement that i have heard yet crystallizing the impact of this around the world as well as here in the united states that anyone can take the message away that a u.s. ambassador can be dumped essentially if you can find a route into the oval office. this signal that this sends is just extraordinary. and so i thought she was extremely powerful and very clear because she essentially didn t succumb to the, well, so what there aren t the republican votes in the senate to do anything about it. she essentially said, you know, this is nuts and i m going to testify about it. and we ve still got to acknowledge the facts. and i thought, you know, it was just this sort of breath of remember this is sort of crazy,
may 2019, we re not meddling in an election. we re meddling in an investigation which we have a right to do. more recently he told cnn s chris cuomo, of course i did when asked if he had pressed ukraine to investigate joe biden. and he has never been shy about who he is doing this work for. his client, the president. one powerful ally giuliani had in ukraine to promote these political investigations was lutsenko, the corrupt former prosecutor general. and one powerful adversary lutsenko had was a certain united states ambassador named marie yovanovitch. it is no coincidence that in the now infamous july 25th call with zelensky, donald trump brings up a corrupt ukrainian prosecutor and praises him against all evidence trump claims that this former prosecutor general was very good and he was shut down
with that? yeah. that it was a legitimate concern to raise? i think that it could raise the appearance of a conflict of interest. and did you discuss that ever with mr. kent? irtly before your confirmation august of 2016, prosecutor general shokin was fired by president poroshenko. correct? yes. and president or prosecutor general shokin was the one who opened the investigation into barisma. correct? i think that s right but i m not actually sure. he was in charge of it at least at that point in time as prosecutor general. uh-huh. and are you aware of the very public statements by the vice president that, that firing of the prosecutor general occurred in march of 2016, six hours
hunter biden s testimony, that has been requested the time has expired. requested by republicans be considered. gentleman s time expired. as a sham suspend for by the chairman. time is expired. unanimous, i have a unanimous consent request. you re not recognized. mr. kemp, you are. ambassador, i would like to thank you very much much and add my gratitude for your years of service. frankly you re the best of this nation and i cannot think of anybody else i would rather have representing us in a foreign capital than you. my colleagues have gone to a great deal of effort to better understand the facts surrounding your removal. i think the facts are pretty clear. there was a smear campaign, and it was orchestrated by a corrupt ukrainian prosecutor. the president s attorney. ed president s son and even some of the president s allies at his favorite tv station. so that campaign led to your removal. despite 33 years of outstanding
after the vice president told president poroshenko that he needed to fire the prosecutor general who that he wouldn t receive $1 billion from the united states? do you recall that? yes. all right. and do you think that that raises a potential concern or complicate of interest that the vice president of the united states was ordering the firing of the prosecutor in charge of a company that has been identified as one that is substantially corrupt? i actually don t. i don t think that the, the view that mr. shokin was not a good prosecutor general fighting corruption, i don t think that had anything to do with the barisma case. but the legitimate concern about hunter biden s role was legitimate. correct? i creates a concern that there could be an appearance of based on your testimony, ambassador, i d like to renew my request, mr. chairman, that