An Opening Statement and well turn to the witness for Opening Statement and then to questions. For audience members we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn, we ask for your respect as we proceed with todays hearing. It is the intention of the committee to proceed without disruptions. As chairman ill take all necessary and appropriate steps to maintain order to ensure that the committee is run in accordance with house rules and House Resolution 660. With that i now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement in the impeachment inquiry into donald j. Trump, the 45th president of the United States. In april, 2019 the United States ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was in kiev when she was called by a Senior State Department official and told to get on the next plane back to washington. Upon her return to d. C. She was informed by her superiors that although she had done nothing wrong, she could no longer serve as ambassador to ukraine because she did not ha
Inquiry, without objection the chairman reserves the right to call recess. make an Opening Statement and representative nunes will make an Opening Statement and well turn to the witness for Opening Statement and then to questions. For audience members we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn, we ask for your respect as we proceed with todays hearing. It is the intention of the committee to proceed without disruptions. As chairman ill take all necessary and appropriate steps to maintain order to ensure that the committee is run in accordance with house rules and House Resolution 660. With that i now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement in the impeachment inquiry into donald j. Trump, the 45th president of the United States. In april, 2019 the United States ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was in kiev when she was called by a Senior State Department official and told to get on the next plane back to washington. Upon her return to d. C. She was infor
Chairman reserves the right to call recess. make an Opening Statement and representative nunes will make an Opening Statement and well turn to the witness for Opening Statement and then to questions. For audience members we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn, we ask for your respect as we proceed with todays hearing. It is the intention of the committee to proceed without disruptions. As chairman ill take all necessary and appropriate steps to maintain order to ensure that the committee is run in accordance with house rules and House Resolution 660. With that i now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement in the impeachment inquiry into donald j. Trump, the 45th president of the United States. In april, 2019 the United States ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was in kiev when she was called by a Senior State Department official and told to get on the next plane back to washington. Upon her return to d. C. She was informed by her superiors that altho
Heard from the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, who said President Trumps phone call at the heart of this investigation was attempted bribery. That is significant, those choice of words. Now this morning we are going to hear from Marie Yovanovitch. She was the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine from august 2016 until President Trump recalled her six months ago. Yovanovitch says she was removed because she stood in the way of getting ukraines government to investigate joibd and his son hunter and a Conspiracy Theory. Lets go back inside the hearing room as we watch some of the arrives there in what is expected to be a day of discovery by the house democrats. And we will see the republican strategy. We have got a team of correspondent entz covering this from capitol hill to the white house. Margaret brennan joins us here, our host of face the nation. I know you have been speaking with people close to the ambassador. What is she likely the say today . What are we likely to learn . It will be
Hill just a few minutes ago and she is the 3rd witness to speak publicly about the events surrounding trumps mouth famous phone call with the ukrainian leader in july hes accused of threatening to withhold when the tree aide on this ukraine investigated his political rival joe biden get out of it as a career diplomat and an Anti Corruption advocate last month she told the inquiry about efforts by trumps lawyer Rudy Giuliani to publicly discredit her she said a senior ukrainian official had warned her to watch her back now giuliani had accused her of undermining the president before trump dismissed her in may. In just a moment our White House Correspondent kimberly how could join us but 1st lets go to heidi show cost or shes outside the hearing room on capitol hill we have a pretty good idea heidi of what mr van of which will say so what kind of questions are we expecting from both the democrats and republicans. Sure wolf from democrats was a bit more expecting them to elicit from the r