former fbi lawyer and senior official lisa page made an announcement on twitter today, writing this, quote, i sued the department of justice and fbi today. i take little joy in having done so, but what they did in leaking my messages to the press was not only wrong, it was illegal. chuck rosen berg, she stayed quiet for so long, smeared by the president for so long, what do you think gets someone to speak out after years of being slimed? i ve seen this happen to my friends, i was lucky it didn t happen to me, but i ve seen it happened to my friends and it s so jarring. it s so hard for these good and decent public servants to even understand that a president of the united states is attacking them. it takes awhile to get your footing. you re like, sure someone will make him stop acting out. someone will make him stop or he ll come to his senses and that just didn t happen. so, it takes awhile to find your voice. but i m glad they re finding their voices. and lisa page seems to h
ambassador yovanovitch had a 33 year exemplary history of serving this country. so it is all a piece of sliming people who do not deserve to be slimed. and all we can do is tell his story. and the way i m going to keep my sort of equanimity is just knowing how history will regard the sliming of a soldier who was awarded the purple heart because he was wounded in combat on behalf of his country and in this moment we ll watch republicans and the president slime that guy. congressman himes, thank you very much for being with us. we ll let you get in that hearing room. appreciate it. thank you, john. believe it or not, there is something else to watch today.
hopes will, quote, discredit u.s. intelligence agencies examination of russian interference in the 2016 election. william barr himself, the attorney general personally has been working on that for the president around the globe. why is he doing that? i mean, the impeachment proceeding is about president trump trying to get help for his 2020 election. why is bill barr traveling around the globe working on stuff with foreign governments that they hope will change the view that russia interfered in the election that already happened in 2016? to understand that, i think it s worth taking a step back. also it s worth taking a step back just because this is moving so fast now. trump s envoy to ukraine suddenly resigning. tonight that ukraine envoy is confirming that he will attend that deposition on thursday of this week. oh, the stories he could tell. the u.s. ambassador to ukraine who was attacked and slimed by
around the globe working on stuff with foreign governments that they hope will change the view that russia interfered in the election that already happened in 2016? to understand that, i think it s worth taking a step back. and also, it s worth taking a step back just because this is all moving so fast now. trump s envoy to ukraine suddenly resigning. within hours of him being notified that he ll be deposed this week by house intelligence committee counsel. tonight, that ukraine envoy is confirming he will attend that deposition on thursday of this week. oh, the stories he could tell. the u.s. ambassador to ukraine who was attacked and slimed by the president, by the president s son, the u.s. ambassador to ukraine who mike pompeo recalled early from office without explanation in the middle of this pressure campaign to try to get the ukraine government involved in helping trump for 2020, that u.s. ambassador to ukraine is going to be deposed the day before the envoy has his deposition.
willingness to come forward and report their assaults when they happen? well, i think it s obvious. it s going to have a devastating effect. i mean here s a woman, who thought she was doing a patri patriotic duty, a civic duty, she called it. and she tried to alert the government before the numbers of people under consideration had come down to kavanagh himself, when there was still a short list, to say, listen, this is my experience. and look at what s happened. she s been slimed, attacked, insulted, humiliated, death threats, she can t go back to her house. how many victims of sexual assault are going to want to come forward in this kind of circumstance? this should never, ever happen. why isn t the president out there condemning this? he s not, he s calling the people who made the accusations, he s saying it s all made up. this is really a devastating thing for this country, because