2019, i became increasingly aware of an effort by rudy giuliani and others, including his associates lev parnas and igor fruman to run a campaign to smear ambassador yovanovitch and other officials at the u.s. embassy in kiev. i became alarmed as those efforts bore fruit. they led to the ouster of yovanovitch and hampered efforts to establish rapport with the now zelensky administration in ukraine. in mid-august, it became clear to me that giuliani s efforts to ginn up politically motivated investigations were now infecting u.s. engagement with ukraine, leveraging president zelensky s desire for a white house meeting. it s so weird to hear and think about all of these conspiracy theories and then to hear from the career diplomats who have served presidents on both sides of the aisle trying to figure out what s going on here. what more do you know about rudy giuliani and where he was getting all of this information? so, mika, from the very
exactly this guy john solomon is, he said, all right, i can t get anybody to pay attention to this information that i ve uncovered, that i think is so devastating towards the bidens. so wham i going t am i going to it? so he gives it to this conservative journalist who starts to weave the story together of the ukrainians as these corrupt entities that are essentially involved in trying to interfere with american elections when really the source for that information, the primary source that rudy giuliani provided to this journalist john solomon was a prosecutor in ukraine we know to be corrupt who is now under criminal investigation in ukraine. so we know that the white house has not had an official war room to defend against itself against this impeachment to this point. shannon, i was struck yesterday. there was an effort to have some sort of rapid response from the campaign from some trump allies,