Thinks the president personally bothered Department Officials to remove her without any evidence of any wrongdoing. As her statement reads, finally after being asked by the department in early march to extend my tour until 2020, i was then abruptly told in late april to come back to washington from ukraine, on the next plane. You will understandably want to ask why my posting ended so suddenly. I wanted to learn that to and tried to find out. I met with the deputy secretary of state who informed me of curtailment of my term. He said the president had lost confidence in me, no longer wished me to serve as his ambassador. He added there had been a Concerted Campaign against me and 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, and that this was not like other situations where he recalled ambassadors for cause. Joining me with the latest from the ongoing deposition from capitol hill, geoff bennet