russia that hacked the 2016 election. the nation s intelligence agencies have stated unequivocally that it was russia and not ukraine that interfered in our election. giuliani believed this conspiracy theory referred to as crowdstrike, shorthand for the company that discover the russian hack would aid his clients reelection. giuliani also constructed a smear campaign against the u.s. and u.s. ambassador to ukraine murray jovanovich. on april 29th a senior white house official told her that although that she had done nothing wrong president trump had lost confidence in her. with the sidelining of jovanovish the state was set for the establishment of an irregular channel in which giuliani and later others, including gordon sondland and influential donor to the president s inauguration of serving as ambassador to the presidency an end could advance the presidents persico, person
investigators may be wrapping up. the one thing that we had heard about that is that he was joining in on the people who were really unhappy with the ousting of the former ambassador to ukraine. what can you tell us? are these live pictures we re looking at here? yeah. yeah. but i can tell you mike mckinley has left the building. our team was following him as he tried to get out of that underground room a few floors below me after several hours of testimony today. mckinley, our understanding, came into this as something of a context witness. he was going to describe the situation at the state department under mike pompeo s leadership particularly over the last couple of months. we are told that he was particularly upset about the sidelining of marie yovanovitch, the now former ambassador to ukraine. and more broadly, the concern that the state department was being worked around by the white house, by rudy giuliani, and by other actors. mckinley was essentially a state department life
on wrongdoing is foundational to it s great to be with you. our democracy. i m not an alarmist. that person was essentially just passing the baton off to as a recovering diplomat, i know how hard these jobs are but i m congress. it s really important congress talk to people with firsthand deeply worried about the knowledge and this instance, you hollowing out of my old institution today and what it know, what is this witness s means for promoting american knowledge today about why the interests on a very competitive and complicated international ukrainian ambassador was basically sent home? landscape. you look at the tangible was that because she was measures, you know, the white interfering with this kind of house s efforts to cut the budget for diplomacy in the side behind the channel state department severely. you look at the sidelining of negotiating? very serious stuff for the career expertise. broader structure of democracy. you know? of the 28 assistant secretary susan, kind
ranking member of the subcommittee for five minutes. thank you, mr. chairman. i listened to your reasons why you haven t resign. and basically you said that you re staying because only you can carry out the president s mission. and i strongly disagree with that. i think oyour actions are an embarrassment to president trump. if i were the president, i wouldn t want your help. i would just get rid of you. i m not the president, so let me move on. it has been reported that you have even gone so far as to retaliate against epa s employees, punishing those who questioned your spending and management and sidelining those who attempted to advance important public health protections. i wanted to ask again, yes or no, because we don t have a lot of time, it has been reported that at least five epa employees were recently reassigned, demoted or otherwise retaliated against after they raised concerns about your spending.
use of marijuana and a majority allow its use for medical purposes. tonight we wrap up our 3-part series on the future of american farming. last night we told you how difficult it is to continue the generations long tradition of the family farm because of factors including difficult trade policies with nations such as china and the possibilities of more tariffs. tonight, a bit of optimism. doug tells us there is a new generation of farmers in america coming from an unlikely place: big cities. that shows how full they are. some might think cj is risking too much considering the delining fortune of the american family farm. but he is selling the beef, poultry and eggs he raises on land his ancestors built. we got into producing it. we were fortunate to be successful with the timing.