and were zones in africa and the middle east. john, the first call this guy made when he was arrested was to joe biden s brother. what? laura, think about this and what valerie biden owens tries to tie this to donald trump. to be clear, the first president to raise issues about concerns about hunter biden, joe biden, influence peddling and corruption was barack obama. ambassador yovanovitch testified during the impeachment trial, out of 1,000 ukrainian companies, the only one that the obama white house briefed her on was paris smell and hunter biden. remember, her testimony under oath was that you get question about hunter biden remember this is back in 2015, long before donald trump was president. you should refer to the question of the office of vice president
not have to rush out. so, that was my decision and ultimately, it s i think the right decision to make sure our families were safe. and certainly this has put a big burden on you. we ve not had a permanent ambassador in ukraine since yovanovitch was pulled back by president trump. that s a long time not to have an ambassador in a country. how is the embassy functioning? the embassy is functioning fine. i ve been charge and do all the things an ambassador would do. in the meantime, the ukrainians work with me as if i was the ambassador. i m one person and we have a lot of people doing all the work of the embassy. so, it continues to function as usual. well, there are a lot of people really grateful the work
uncomfortable for me in ukraine. i understood that he had joined forces with giuliani and that they both wanted me fired. but i salute on the mansion that they could be successful. the notion that an unscrupulous and disgruntled for an official, or even a president s personal dirt digger, would actually mean if you like the u.s. government to act against the sitting u. s. ambassador was inconceivable to me, and quote. the very next month, yovanovitch was suddenly recalled to washington in the middle of the night and summarily dismissed as ambassador. that happened just three days after the election of a new ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy. he was about to get sucked right into the middle of donald trump s extortion scheme. and marie ivanovich, the veteran ambassador, who was such a staunch ally of ukraine and its fight against russia and corruption would not be there to back him up. a few months later, yovanovitch was called to testify at donald trump s impeachment hearings.
would zelenskyy would have been in a stronger position, i m gonna ask you for a moment to wait. this is a train that is leaving zahony station on the border, the passengers are coming from ukraine, they are now heading to budapest. this train will actually stop in budapest, on thursday night you saw i was in the budapest station. they will from there be greeted by more relief workers, who will provide them with transportation, and accommodation in budapest, or to the airport, or to the embassies where they can get their visas and move on to points west. some will stay in budapest, some will go on, we just spoke to a woman who is heading to prague. she is here with their friend, and their little children. that s the last train we ll probably see for a couple of hours. ambassador, sorry for the interim option, tell me about
good. climate change, all of these factors is difficult for economies, systems to turn rapidly but you have to start somewhere. and i do think that what has happened now in ukraine really is needs to be taken into account by countries globally in terms of what we need to do in order to protect ourselves from the menace of these autocrats but also to move away from the fossil fuel reliance of global activity for the past many, many decades. yeah, indeed. i ll note once again as we reported on this show before, the koch brothers are partially oil refinery based wealth. i ll give you the last word ambassador yovanovitch. what will you consider to be a success from this trip from your point of view, from the diplomatic point of view for biden. what s this sort of level that he has to get to?