Some of my reality it has not always been easy i have moved 13 times and served in 7 Different Countries 5 of them hardship posts my 1st tour was Mogadishu Somalia an increasingly dangerous place as that countrys civil war grinding on and the government was weakening the military took over policing functions in a particularly brutal way and basic Services Services disappeared several years later after the soviet union collapsed i helped open our embassy in Tashkent Uzbekistan as we were establishing relations with a new country our small embassy was attacked by a gunman who sprayed the Embassy Building with gunfire. I later served in moscow in 1993 during the attempted coup in mosque in russia i was caught in crossfire between president ial and parliamentary forces it took us 3 tries me without a helmet or body armor to get into a vehicle to go to the embassy we went because the ambassador asked us to come and we went because it was our duty. From august 26th until may 2019 i served as
Democrats. Today, a third career diplomat will testify, Marie Yovanovitch who was fired from her po ambassador of the ukraine. She was fired in may. I want to bring in mary bruce on capitol hill. Shes going to say that President Trump fired her after what she called a Smear Campaign from Rudy Giuliani. Reporter george, Marie Yovanovitch says she was fired from her job for essentially doing her job. Saying the president lost confidence in her, and now she will have a chance before the American People to tell her side of the story. She said she was blindsided when she was forced out of more than three decades of public service, and she was shocked and even felt threatened when the president said she was bad news. Democrats will argue shes the first victim of the president s shadow diplomacy in ukraine. They are going to use the ambassador to try and put a personal face to their argument. They will say that she was forced out for standing in the way of the politically motivated investigat
Hearing of tchment inquiry. Wednesday. This mornings witness former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch. She has already arrived at the hill this morning. More than 30 years she spent a veteran of the u. S. Foreign Service Serving under both republican and democratic president s. She became a target of President Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Guiliani and was ousted by the president earlier this year. Helping us follow it all this morning we have chuck todd our meet the press moderator in washington. Andrea mitchell is here. Richard engel and former Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weisman now an nbc news legal analyst. Lets start on the hill. Nbcs jeff bennett at his post with what to expect this morning. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you. Marie yovanovitch has been a Foreign Service officer for some 33 years serving in six president ial administrations, three times as an ambassador in hot spots all around the world, two times appointed by a republican president in
Also seeing areas of fog. Look at the dew points drop from 70 today to the 50s and 60s. Now 50s thats quite comfortable. Still have mid 60s for parts of the cape. Visibility down to half a mile in norwood a little bit warmer in keene and orange. Otherwise looking fantastic this morning for your start. We will notice temperatures climbing into your 80s by lunch hour. Mid to upper 80s by the interior of the afternoon. Then as we get toward the evening youll n that means cooler conditions developing at the coast. A sea breeze kicking on in, what to expect in your town for high temperatures and when to expect our next chance of rain. Over to you. Catherine breaking this morning, a busy night for responders across boston. Over the span of two hours, there was three separate shootings. One sending a person to the hospital apt many with lifethreatening injuries. Jason boston e. M. S. Confirms and an hour later, someone shot on norton street and the last one just before 4 00 in Jamaica Plain.
Prookfield 36, certainly cold enough to support frost on some surfaces, in ring in southern New Hampshire, 34 degrees. Boston is 39, tewkesbury at 45 and i have 48 natick. No 30s in the Greater Boston area but but as you get to the cape and the islands, 40s and 50s, a cool start to the day. Sunshine all the way through, temperatures 6065, around boston today. The crisp start, you will need your jacket and a nice breeze coming up this afternoon to give a fresh feel to the air as middle 60s, back towards fitchburg, low 660s for chatham today. Im back with more frost concerns tonight and and the next big rainmaker tonight. Following breaks news this morning, 7 people stab thed outside a boston hotel. Stephanie quien you is live on tremendousmont street where police are on the scene collecting evidence at last check, stephanie . Are yeah, they they are gathering evidence and speaking with witnesses because again this happened just as people and taking a look behind me, you can still see so