Questionable motives, forced her out. And if it had been up to the white house she never would have appeared. Moments ago the chairman of the house intel Foreign Affairs and oversights committees announce the yovanovitch was issued a subpoena after the state department on direction of the white house told her not to show up. She served this nation as diplomat over three decades appointed by both republican and democratic president s and in her Opening Statement obtained by the New York Times this former ambassador takes us inside the moment she learned she would no longer be needed at the state department. She said, i met with the deputy secretary of state who informed of curtailment of my term that the president lost confidence in me and no longer wished me to serve as ambassador. Added there had been a Concerted Campaign against me and that the department had been under pressure from the president to remove me since the summer of 2018. He also said that i had done nothing wrong. That
As the exambassador to the ukraine ended her testimony, another Major Development was unfolding. The Opening Statement of a person who overheard a public conversation in which President Trump asked about ukraine launching investigations. He said an ambassador told him the president didnt give an expletive about ukraine. He was all about investigating the bidens. Cnn correspondent phil mattingley tells us more about what we heard on the hearing that went late into the evening. It was detail in the various places, it was damning for President Trump and it was exactly what democrats have been looking for in their impeachment inquiry. David holmes laying out what Ambassador William Taylor first exposed on wednesday of this week in his own testimony. Noting that a staffer had overheard in a meeting President Trump on the phone talking explicitly about investigations. It turns out what taylor testified was not just backed up. It was backed up with explicit detail. David holmes in a nearly si
Join USIP for a conversation with Igor Zhovkva, deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, and Christopher Smith, deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the Department of State, on the importance of multilateral support for President Zelenskyy’s 10-point peace plan.