note that i m not a political appointee nor engaged in u.s. politics in any way. it is not my job to cover or advise on u.s. politics. on the contrary, i am an apolitical foreign policy professional and my job is to focus on the politics of the country in which i serve, so that we can better understand the local landscape and better advance u.s. national interests there. in fact, during the period that we ll cover today, my colleagues and i followed direct guidance from sdof yovanovitch and ambassador taylor to focus on doing our jobs as foreign policy professionals and to stay clear of washington politics. i arrived in kyiv to take up my assignment as political counselor in august 2017, a year after ambassador yovanovitch received her appointment. from august 2017 until her removal from post in may 2019, i was ambassador yovanovitch s chief policy adviser and developed a deep respect for her dedication, determination,
security because he was chasing down a rabbit hole of something that s just a conspiracy theory and constructively mitigating the blame on russia and thereby also distracting from the intensity of the need to protect against russia which is something this president has been charged with for a long time now. david holmes, what does he provide in the puzzle? well, he, of course, we learned overheard a phone call between president trump and ambassador sondland of the european union in a restaurant in kiev in which president trump and sondland were discussing in the testimony of david holmes an investigation into the bidens that should be launched by the ukrainian government. according to his testimony, sondland made clear to the president that the ukrainian president would move forward with that investigation and would do anything the president wanted. the president cared only about that according to what we ll hear from david holmes. and that s what he said in his closed door depositio
ukraine had something to do with election interference in 2016 and how it literally creates a national security threat to ignore russia s role and to engage in that kind of conspiracy theory. so we get her arrival here. we re waiting on david holmes. going to be on today together this morning. let s get up to the white house. cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins. the president is also up and exercised this morning. the president who in his initial address to the country said that american carnage would end seems to be continuing as much bloodsport as possible referring to the democrats in the impeachment inquiry as human scum this morning. yeah, and repeating that same argument that we ve seen from the president saying essentially that he s frustrated because they do not have white house attorneys present in the room as these witnesses are coming forward to testify about what was happening inside the white house to talk about this pressure campaign happening with this milita
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when he was named as part of the u.s. delegation led by secretary rick perry to president zelensky s inauguration. lieutenant colonel alexander vindman also attended the inauguration and as holmes recalls, during a meeting with president zelensky, took the opportunity to advise the new ukrainian leader to stay out of u.s. domestic politics. another concern that arose for dr. hill around this time was her discovery of a potential nsc back channel on ukraine. hill learned an nsc staff member who did not work on ukraine and for her may have been providing ukraine-related information to president trump that dr. hill was not made aware of. according to holmes, following this zelensky inauguration, sondland and perry took a very active and unconventional role in formulating our priorities for the new zelensky administration and personally reaching out to president zelensky and his senior team.