And her woman of courage award stemmed from her anticorruption efforts in ukraine . Yes. That is true. Was it ever determined who threw the acid and killed her . There have been investigations, but while some of the lowerranking individuals that were involved in this have been arrested, those who ordered this have not yet been apprehended. After you stepped away from this anticorruption event to take this call, what did the director general tell you . She said that there was great concern on the seventh floor of the State Department. Thats where the leadership of the State Department sits. There was great concern. They were worried. She just wanted to give me a heads up about this and things seemed to be going on. So she wanted to give me a heads up. Hard to know how to react to Something Like that, i asked her what was it about, what did she
think it was about. She didnt know. She said that she was going to try and find out more, but she wanted to give me a heads up. In fact, i think
toxic things he disseminates through his twitter feed. this may ultimately be evidence against donald j. trump, his effort at witness intimidation this morning delivered via tweet. everywhere marie yovanovitch went turned bad. she started in somalia, how did that go. fast forward to ukraine where the ukrainian president spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with her. it is the u.s. president s right to appoint ambassadors. the u.s. has a stronger foreign policy, much different than proceeding i don t think that s the word he meant. it s called, quite simply, america first. we ll stop right there. let me ask you this, chris. donald trump is now squarely on the side of the corrupt actors in ukraine. it would seem that, if republicans want to make this pleasure of the president argument, its weakness is what causes him, what brings him pleasure is siding with bad actors and autocrats.
ambassador, your reaction to chris s observation of what is obviously the news of the hour, real-time witness tampering, witness intimidation by the president into the testimony, live testimony of former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch? the first thing i want to say is i think she s doing a fantastic job. i know ambassador yovanovitch. cool and calm. sticking to the facts. under very difficult circumstances. but that tweet was just outrageous. i don t know what the legal implications are. you have a lot of legal people there that can talk about it. but as somebody who has served this country and somebody who knows what the state department people do, for him to go after her while she is testifying and let s just be clear, completely crazy stuff, like somehow some low-level diplomat is responsible for what happened in somalia? and then just to correct the record, when she was in ukraine, things got better in ukraine and
administration is and what depths they will go to, regardless of how many people get destroyed in the process. having grown up in the cold war where we hid under our desks because the russians were coming, and i was at the wall when it happened. i was in budapest when it happened. we were the good guys. the people that fight corruption and fought communism and tyranny a young kid came up to me at the berlin wall that said freedom to him was talking to me. how did the president jump on the other side and attacking americans, the horrors of somal somalia, dragging an american soldier through the streets. she s responsible for that? blaming america first was the taunt of the far left. they would attack us for everything. here the president of the united states blames an american ambassador for the horrors of the third world, the evils behind the iron curtain he s helping to restore. if i were a republican i m not a republican, i admit it.
if i could follow up on that question. it seems like an appropriate time. ambassador yovanovitch, as we sit here testifying, the president is attacking you on twitter and i would like to give you a chance to respond. i ll read part of one of his tweets. everyone marie yovanovitch went turned bad. she started off in somalia, how did that go? he goes on to say later in the tweet, is that u.s. president is absolutely right to appoint ambassadors. first of all, ambassador yovanovitch, the senate has a chance to confirm or deny an ambassador, do they not? yes. advise and consent. would you like to respond to the president s attack that everywhere you went turned bad? well, i mean, i don t think i have such powers.