are you also aware that vladimir putin had promoted this theory of ukrainian interference in the 2016 election? i am well aware of that fact. ambassador yovanovitch are you aware in february of 2017 vladimir putin himself promoted this theory of ukrainian interference in the 2016 election? you know, maybe i knew that once and have forgotten, but i m not familiar with it now. this an excerpt from a february 2, 2017, news conference with president putin and prime minister orban of hungary where putin says, second, as we all know during the presidential campaign in the united states the ukrainian government adopted a unilateral position in favor of one candidate. more than that, certain oligarchs certainly with the approval of the political leadership funded this candidate or female candidate to be more precise. mr. holmes, you spent three
the russian the russian government s purposes. please, she says, do not do this. it does not appear to sink in. president trump had good reason to be worried of ukrainian election meddling against his campaign. it s weird, right? i mean the republican defenders of the president on the impeachment committee are very happy to continue promulgating this thing that the president was promoting in ukraine, nobody in the u.s. government and national security intelligence believes that this is credible. the president s own national security and foreign policy advisers told him this is not credible. russian security services are promoting it, though, for their own purposes. so the president was promoting it and now his supporters in congress are promoting it, too. they re just slogging away with this no matter the consequences. this is an excerpt from a february 2, 2017, news conference between president putin and prime minister orban of hungary where putin says,
security and foreign policy advisers told him this is not credible. russian security services are promoting it, though, for their own purposes. so the president was promoting it and now his supporters in congress are promoting it, too. they re just slogging away with this no matter the consequences. this is an excerpt from a february 2, 2017, news conference between president putin and prime minister orban of hungary where putin says, second, as we all know during the presidential campaign in the united states the ukrainian government adopted a unilateral position in favor of one candidate. more than that oligarchs certainly with the approval of the political leadership funded this candidate or female candidate to be more precise. mr. holmes, you spent three years as well in the u.s. embassy in russia. why would it be to vladimir putin s advantage to promote this theory of ukraine interference? first of all to deflect from the allegations of russian
disregarded the advice of his senior officials about this theory and instead listened to rudy giuliani s views. that appears to be the case, yes. and i also then want to just show one other exhibit that goes back to what you were testifying earlier, dr. hill, about russia s interest in promoting this theory. this is an excerpt from a february 2, 2017, news conference with president putin and prime minister of hungary where putin is as we all know during the presidential campaign in the united states the ukrainian government adopted a unilateral position in favor of one candidate. more than that certain oligarchs with the approval of the political leadership funded this female candidate to be more precise. mr. holmes, you spent three years as well in the u.s. embassy in russia. why would it be to vladimir
rex tillerson s tenure. is it repairable? it is, but i m not sure mike pompeo is the guy do it. this is may 1, but it sounded like february 2, 2017, that was rex tillerson s first day on the job be. and he came intoes j the job wi similar tone. he valued the work of diplomats and then diplomats went another three months without ever seeing their secretary of state again. you get the impression that mike pompeo will be a bit more public facing, that he will be more forward leaning in his public engagements both with the press, he did take reporters on his trip to the middle east and with his own workforce. i think the challenge will be when it comes to mike pompeo is whether he is going to be willing to listen to his workforce, whether he is going to allow their input, their advice, their guidance to factor into what he is telling the president privately. he is a very conservative congressman from kansas, elected