meant when he told the president of ukraine that she was, quote, going t go through some things. i don t know what it meant she told congressional investigators. i was very concerned. i still am. did you feel threatened she was asked. yes. she responds. this is just part of what we re learning tonight from the just released transcripts of testimony in the house intelligence committee. ambassador yovanovitch telling lawmakers rudy guiliani s plan to dig up dirt on trump s potential rivals dates back to almost a year ago when yovanovitch claims she was told by a ukrainian that guiliani had, quote, plans, and they were going to, you know, do things, including to me. do things? was the united states ambassador to ukraine threatened by trump s personal attorney rudy guiliani? the transcript continues, quote, question to yovanovitch, did you ever have any conversations after november or december, 2018, with ukrainian officials about mr. guiliani up until the
getting longer and drier and the winters shorter here. good point. thanks very much. to our viewers thanks very much for watching. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. threatened trump s former ambassador to ukraine says she felt threatened by the president and there were ominous warnings to her about her security. plus a top state department official testimony contradicts mike pompeo. was the secretary of state caught in a lie? plus we go to a swing district in a swing state trump won. is he about to win it again? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett outfront tonight. threatened, trump s former ambassador to ukraine testifying behind closed doors that she felt threatened by the president of the united states. it s all in a trove of documents released by the house intelligence committee today. according to the transcript of the former ambassador marie yovanovitch s testimony she was asked about what president trump
completely exhausted when this is over with. it would be so much simpler for him if he were just to acknowledge the clear truth of the fact. so look. you said you need to know your witness pool before you know who could testify publicly. obviously one key witness could be john bolten. and we don t know whether he ll testify or not. nbc news says bolten will be willing to testify if the court orders his long-time deputy charles kupperman to testify and of course kupperman is fighting it, right, filing a lawsuit to determine whether he has to testify. it s possible. looks like now we may not get an answer from the courts until january. will you move forward with a full vote on articles of impeachment without testimony from people like john bolten who was obviously at the core of every other testimony we ve gotten thus far? that remains to be seen. we re not going to play rope-a-dope with the administration and their continuing effort to withhold all the documentation that we have sub
as you pointed out where the former ukrainian ambassador felt threatened by what the president said on the call with zelensky that she was bad news. the president today repeating talking points he said previously, that it was president zelensky of ukraine who expressed concerns about her, the president trying to distance himself, saying he didn t really know her. of course during that call it was the president who brought her up, saying she was bad news prompting zelensky to agree with her. but the white house expected the transcript release today and is bracing for more to come potentially more damning testimony to come that would only corroborate the whistle-blower s testimony and the effort by rudy guiliani in that shadow foreign policy campaign that was going on. this transcript released today, erin, also comes when four white house officials stonewalled and did not show up for their testimony despite subpoenas. that is a theme you ll see played out this week because we do expect t
top officials, intricately involved in holding up the ukraine aid, to not show up for their testimony tomorrow, either. of course, for the president, for the white house, this is welcomed because previously there has been damning testimony from former and current administration officials so you re now seeing white house officials stonewalling is something as part of the white house strategy to not cooperate. the big sticking point they keep pointing to is administration officials can t be in during this testimony. now, all of this is happening, erin, as the president appears to be changing his tune on quid pro quo saying it is no big deal if that did happen. we ll have to wait to see what he says during the rally in kentucky. thank you very much. pam, out front now democratic congressman denny hack who sits on the house intelligence committee. i appreciate your time. yovanovitch said when she was recalled, you know, removed from her job, she was told, quote, this is about your securi