yovanovitch the ousted ambassador to ukraine told congress she felt threatened by trump add his cronies smear campaign against her, trump offered a fresh real time threat during her testimony. a thuggish unprecedented display by an american president that led to this q and a between ambassador yovanovitch and house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff. now the president in real time is attacking you. what effect do you think that has on other witnesses willingness to come forward and expose wrong doing? well, it s very intimidating. i mean, i can t speak to what the president is trying to do, but i think the effect is to be intimidating. well, i want to let you know ambassador that some of us here tane very seriously. yovanovitch s dramatic testimony, so compelling that
ranking member of the house intelligence the house intelligence committee rehashing the same bizarre debunked conspiracy theory about the 2016 election interference that donald trump apparently believes, that it was ukraine and not russia who attacked our 2016 election. not surprisingly the source of that theory from the upside downturns out to be russia. specifically the russian intelligence service. what we now know is that now jailed former trump campaign chairman paul manafort got this idea, the blame ukraine fixation from yukranian businessman who manafort used to do work for and who has tie to russian intelligence. ambassador yovanovitch repeatedly reminded congress and the american public why this false idea plays right into russia s hands. now, how would this theory of ukraine interference in the 2016 election be in vladimir putin s interest? well, i mean, president putin
investigators, because it has the tendency to thwart the investigation and the quest for the truth. going forward, i think it s perhaps even more significant because all of those witnesses who are going to come before congress in the coming weeks, like gordon sondland and others, have to be looking at what happened to roger stone, seeing that he s been convicted of a crime and is going to go to prison, as they think about whether to come clean and tell the truth when they testify before congress. there you go. and maya, donald trump we don t like to read his tweets terribly much on this show, but in this case, i ll go ahead. and he tweeted, so they now convict roger stone of lying and want to jail him for many years to come. well, what about oh, god, then he names a bunch of people that have nothing to do with anything criminal. he names a bunch of people. he wants mueller to go to jail. i ve read enough of that. donald trump seems to forget what the actually record here of mr.
he now is refreshed his memory that he did tell ukrainian officials that it was likely that they would not be getting the security assistance unless they publicly announced there would be an investigation into biden and 2016. there are key elements what he initially said changing here as he s forced to look at what the other folks who were involved in these discussions were telling lawmakers. kylie, thank you. not only did sondland call rick perry, sam and ellie, to refresh his memory, i guess, day before his deposition, this other key piece. sondland told the committee he had a brief exchange with president trump during a white house gathering where the president told him, i quote, go tell the truth. the man was under oath the first go-round. correct? i m having a hard time understand sondland mind-set. goes in front of congress under oath. leaves out a very important detail and only when donald trump tells him go tell the
withheld. nearly $400 million in military aid congress approved. he wasn t clear why that aid was withheld and said never able to get a straight answer but makes clear this is why this meeting was withheld because of his effort by rudy giuliani. something he raised concerns about. brooke, there are a lot of questions still about sondland s own testimony. he downplays conversations he had with the president. said he never heard the president directly say there should be an announcement of public investigations. we ve heard from other witnesses including tim morrison of the national security council, and a top diplomat in ukraine testifies otherwise saying sondland told morrison president trump actually wanted a public announcement of an investigation into the bidens and the 2016 campaigns. there s discrepancy what the president was pushing for and two different accounts than what gordon sondland is saying here. we ll see if he ultimately asked to clarify that of it. significant this is