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
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the meeting will come to order. Good morning, everyone. This is the second in a series of public hearings the committee will be holding as part of the houses impeachment 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, 201
Toluca had reported at least according to her and according to politico was trying to work with the Ukrainian Embassy in d. C. To trade information, to share leads of that sort of thing . I saw the article. I didnt have any further information about that. Did you see the article at the time or did you only come did that only come to your attention subsequently . It has certainly been brought to my attention subsequently. I think i did see something to that effect at the time. You are the ambassador in country at this point. Did you aim to get to the bottom of that . If the reporting is true if what was told, is accurate, that would be concerning, correct . Well, i was ambassador in ukraine starting in august 2016, and what youre describing, if true as you said, what youre describing took place in the United States. So if there were concerns about what he was doing, i think that wouldve been handled here. Do you know her . I doubly so. Have you ever met her . I dont think so. She works
Looking at video from st. Petersburg where flooding and whipped damage is already reported. Were closing watching hermines track and what it could mean holiday weekend. The Hurricane Hunters continue to fly to hurricane hermine and they recorded winds up to 104 miles per hour. Very strong hermine continues to strengthen as it is nearing land fall. Theres speculation that possibly before land fall which will occur the next couple hours we could see the storm strengthen to category two system and 11 00 advisory came down from the National Weather Service Still a category one wind at 80 miles an hour. Land fall likely. Big bend region of florida over the next couple hours it will weaken and ride along the east coast as we head into the day tomorrow and then become close to our region as we head into the upcoming weekend. It wail transition into a post or excuse me extra tropical system. But still it will are have sustained wind speeds of 50 to 60 miles an hour as its offshore of the jerse
Down from the National Weather Service Still a category one wind at 80 miles an hour. Land fall likely. Big bend region of florida over the next couple hours it will weaken and ride along the east coast as we head into the day tomorrow and then become close to our region as we head into the upcoming weekend. It wail transition into a post or excuse me extra tropical system. But still it will are have sustained wind speeds of 50 to 60 miles an hour as its offshore of the jersey coastline and latest cone of uncertainty. We could see significant impacts along the coast as we head to the upcoming weekend. We have a Tropical Storm watch in effect for the jersey shore and parts of delaware as we head through the weekend into about 9 00, 10 00 on sunday evening so well talk more specifically about what impact we could see along coot and the time frame for the most significant impacts coming up in a couple minutes. All right. Lauren, well check back in with you then. Thanks so much. Those head