to be talked into approaching a lawyer. i didn t want to deal with legal. my approach to coming to this was i saw the request, i answered it before i even talked to any legal counsel. and my approach was why should i need legal counsel to come here and talk about this, but that s not the way washington works apparently. that is certainly not the way washington works for the four trump administration officials who defied impeachment today and refused to show up for their depositions. the most important was the man everyone rushed to complain to after donald trump s phone call with ukraine. john eisenberg. now hiding behind the trump directive that ambassador mckinley and ambassador yovanovitch is norred. the testimony of the ambassadors proves that there is no legal basis whatsoever for the trump administration blocking any of this testimony. mike mckinley testified under
to be talked into approaching a lawyer. i didn t want to deal with legal. my approach to coming to this was i saw the request, i answered it before i even talked to any legal counsel. and my approach was why should i need legal counsel to come here and talk about this, but that s not the way washington works apparently. that is certainly not the way washington works for the four trump administration officials who defied impeachment today and refused to show up for their depositions. the most important of those is the man who everyone rushed to complain to after donald trump s phone call with the president of ukraine, johnizen berg, now hiding behind the trump directive that ambassador mckinley and ambassador yovanovitch ignored. the directive to not testify to the impeachment inquiry. the testimony of the ambassadors proves that there is no legal basis whatsoever for the trump administration blocking any of this testimony. mike mckinley testified under