class, 1986, and has been in his career an army officer. why, the question is, why hasn t he been supporting offering air cover for his people, his employees, among them veteran foreign service officers? the subject came up at the state department today. we ll show you pompeo and talk about it on the other side. i always defend state department employees. it s the greatest diplomatic court in the history of the world. you talk about ukraine policy, so i m curious if you think taylor has been effective envoy of that policy. yes, state department s doing a fantastic job. i think we ve delivered in a way that the obama administration has not delivered on ukraine. do you still have confidence in ambassador taylor. have a fantastic day. so, counselor, you heard him there. he was given a direct chance to offer support, a direct chance to talk about his employees by name. he s an accomplished man,
he probably shouldn t have been involved in ukraine in the first place because he was ambassador to the european union and not to ukraine, and of course ukraine is not an eu member. but he was pushed into this and took part in the conversations and in the back channel with rudy giuliani. i think he will have to weigh between how much he is able to sort of speak to his own experiences and how much he wants to avoid potentially perjuring himself. he will be testifying under oath. the intensity of the public view on this will be significant. so i think he will have some very, very tricky terrain to walk across in this testimony, and i think that could lead to some really significant revelations and significant drama. right. and of course, you know, he could be in a lot of trouble because he hasn t revealed a lot of these details. he s sort of been pushed to, hasn t he? and sondland will be one of eight to testify in the impeachment inquiry s second week of public hearings. another criti
would be doing this at this juncture. okay. lot to get to. thank you so much. appreciate it. you re welcome. as top career diplomats prepare to testify this week, our guest guest worries whether trust in the foreign service and state department can be restored after this is over. molly montgomery spent 14 years in the foreign service and worked for mike pence for europe and asia just over a year leaving in march of last year. thank for your time. you have noted that the foreign service officers are as deeply patriotic as their colleagues in the military. that s my experience. i spent two years in the state department, they do posts all around the world, et cetera. i wonder where vice president mike pence is on this. he served in government and he s aware of the service and dedication of state department officials. why hasn t he spoken out publicly in defense of them? well, i certainly can t speak for the vice president. in my experience he was respectful of the expertise of c
incriminating information against the president, and we re just going to move on to the patriotic witnesses, the vindmans, the fiona hills, the ambassador yovanovitches, the kents, and that is where we ll get our evidence. katie, do you agree with that? oh, yeah, absolutely. because look, when you actually invoke, for example the fifth amendment if you re being questioned and you say i invoke my fifth amendment right against self-incrimination, what happens is an adverse inference or negative inference can be drawn and presented to say a jury. so, i think it s a really important thing here for everybody to also remember, as we saw in the run-up to this segment, mulvaney has already basically testified, hasn t he? he s already told all of us that the quid pro quo not only happened, but it happens all the time in this trump administration. do i really need mulvaney anymore if i m congress? no. he gave me what i needed and you know what he s going to say, i was lying when i did that
he said his dad was a jewish man who immigrated to this country and gave him as a child all these opportunities. he does not like these anti-immigrant policies. sandra: the case that s the story of so many americans today. could this work? i think acknowledging where that comes from him that obviously from a compassionate place. i think it is a total oversimplification. a frightening one of our entire system and he ignores all the converging factors that come into play with every thing he would dismantle in his proposed plan. for example when he talks about climate migration. he has been a legislator for so long why hasn t he aided anything in terms of international diplomacy with china or india, the largest polluters. talking about the southern borders and immigrants why isn t he talking about diplomacy required and acknowledgement of the cartels and the push factors coming over the southern border? in terms of hough it will impact his potential voters a poll came out yesterday ka