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Impeachment hearings from n.p.r. News I m Audie Cornish for the last couple of hours we have been listening to testimony from Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vandeman who was a top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council and also from Jennifer Williams a foreign service aide to Vice President Mike Pence now listening with me here in the studio N.P.R. s senior political editor and corresponded to medical Munden our welcome back thank you n.p.r. White House correspondent Tamara Keith it s like you never left and here national security correspondent David Well no thank you for staying with us sure we ve talked a lot about Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vin mean I do want to get back to him but I also want to talk about Jennifer Williams She s a foreign service aide detail to Vice President Mike Pence s office we should say that she is among those testimony who are giving testimony under subpoena right like they didn t turn it down should we read anything into that she s a foreign serv
Got stronger for g. Crane is that accurate with the provision of javelins to the Ukrainian military Yes that was that was really positive and why was that important Well 2 things they are obviously tank busters and so if the war with Russia all of a sudden accelerated in some way and tanks come over the horizon javelins are a very serious weapon to deal with that that s number one but really the more important issue is the symbol of the symbolism of it that the United States is providing javelins to Ukraine that makes Ukraine s adversaries think twice and the provision of javelins to Ukraine was was. Blocked during the previous administration is that correct I think they made a determination. I was not a part of those discussions but obviously they had not yet made a determination about whether to provide javelins do you have any on your understanding of what the inner agency consensus was with regard to javelins during the previous administration. I think that most of the interagency
Yes and you have no reason to think that he would be undertaking any initiative that was counter to u.s. Interests I think that he tried to do what he thought was right. The. Turning our attention to the trumpet ministrations policy of aid the aid package to Ukraine. You testified that during your tenure as ambassador America s policy actually got stronger orgy crane is that accurate with the provision of javelins to the Ukrainian military Yes that was that was really positive and why was that important Well 2 things they are obviously tank busters and so if the war with Russia all of a sudden accelerated in some way and tanks come over the horizon javelins are a very serious weapon to deal with that that s number one but really the more important issue is the symbol the symbolism of it that the United States is providing javelins to Ukraine that makes Ukraine s adversaries think twice and the provision of javelins to Ukraine was was. Blocked during the previous administration is that