Unprecedented answers by a president of the United States, ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was recalled from her post to the ukraine without explanation in may when she read that President Trump had referred to her as bad news and said she was going to go through some things in his july phone call summary with the ukrainian president. I was shocked, absolutely shocked and devastated frankly, it sounded like a threat. Do you feel threatened . I do. Then as the ambassador testified the president attacked her by tweet. Chairman adam schiff read it to her minutes later. Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. I think the effect is to be intimidated. Want to let you know ambassador some of us here take witness intimidation very seriously. Diplomat bill taylor also revealed that a staffer overheard a telephone conversation in a ukraine restaurant between President Trump and his Eu Ambassador Gordon Sondland. Member of my staff could hear President Trump on the phone asking ambassador sond
Points based upon . They were so this is not in the Public Record and i cant comment too deeply but what is the areas that weve consistently talked to talked about in public is cooperation on supporting a reform agenda, anticorruption efforts and helping president zelensky implement his plans to end russias war against ukraine. In other words, theyre based on official u. S. Policy . Correct. And is there a process to determine official u. S. Policy . Yes. My job is to coordinate u. S. Policy so throughout the preceding year that i had been on staff i had undertaken an effort to make sure we had a cohesive and coherent u. S. Policy. As you listened to the call did you observe whether President Trump was following the talking points based on the official u. S. Policy . Counsel, the president could choose to use the talking points or not. Hes the president , but they were not consistent with what i provided, yes. Lets take a look at a couple of excerpts from this call. Right after preside
Represent i did my job im not saying you did it all im saying is you and your the instructions from a lot the lawyer was you shouldnt talk to anybody and you interpret that is dont talk to my boss but im going to go talk to someone that we cant even ask you who that individual is that is incorrect with i just read what you said that i shouldnt talk to any other people but im on has expired theres im sorry chairman but that sequence is not the way it played out ive been trying to turn around script kernal been better and please let. The sequence played out where immediately afterwards i expressed my concerns i did my coordination function mr eisenberg circle back around told me not to talk to anybody else in that current time i did not discuss that when it happened thats when youre talking sized mr head thats right thank you mr chairman colonel inman lets go back to. Their meetings on july 10th and bester boltons office and down in the ward room where you witnessed ambassador sanyal and
From killing themselves. The place had stayed in the private Instagram Community. I felt like i was watching a suicide. That i was in the room with her, watching it happen, and i couldnt do anything. Even people who dont mean to affect others in a negative way do it because they post pictures of serious self harm and people think, 0h, my cuts arent deep enough and i have to do it like her next time. Instagram has banned graphic self harm posts, but images are still shared. Well be asking a top psychiatrist what can be done. Also, news this mroning that thousands of Mental Health hospital patients with learning disabilities and autism will have their care reviewed after a damning report. We hope to get reaction from the father of bethany, the autistic woman in this footage in seclusion in a psychiatric unit it shows him reaching through a hatch to comfort her. Also today, jo swinson will be launching the liberal democrats Election Campaign at 10 30, and Jeremy Corbyn will be explaining
Witnesses up are 2 veteran diplomats acting u. S. Ambassador to ukraine William Taylor and Deputy Assistant secretary of state george cant a tailor has said in closed door testimony he had what he calls a clear understanding the trump wanted to pressure ukraine into investigating his political rival joe biden in exchange for continuing military aid to ukraine cant testify the trumps lawyer Rudy Giuliani pushed for the removal of the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie avantage who will testify on friday the president denies any wrongdoing and says the inquiry is in his words the greatest witch hunt in american history. Kimberly how kate is at the white house and castro is on capitol hill for us where that hearing is of course taking place well be talking to both of them in just a few minutes but 1st patty cohan begins our coverage. From a most the 1st day of his presidency there have been calls for Donald Trumps impeachment. But for the 1st 2 years with his party in control of con