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Now that white house meeting was going to be an official meeting between the two president s correct . Presumably. It would be an Oval Office Meeting hopefully . A working meeting. A working meeting, yes. So an official act. Yes. And in order to perform that official act, donald trump wanted these two investigations that would help his reelection campaign, correct . I cant characterize why he wanted them. All i can tell you is this is what we heard from mr. Giuliani. But he had to get those two investigations if that official act was going to take place, correct . He had to announce the investigations. He didnt actually have to do them, as i understood it. President zelensky had to announce the two investigations the presiden t wanted, make a public announcement, correct . Correct. And those were of great value to the president , that he was quite insistent upon them and his attorney was incestent upon them . I dont want to characterize whether they were valued, not valued. Again, thro
Come to order. I now recognize Ranking Member nunes and minority counsel for 45 minutes of questions. Thank you the gentlemen and for those of you watching at home. That was not a bathroom break. That was a chance for the democrats to go out and hold a press conference for all the supposed bomb shells that were in your opening testimony. I want to get back to the facts of the matter here. And the thing that the democrats have been unwilling to accept is that their operatives got Campaign Dirt from ukrainians in the 2016 election. Now, they know it. They know its true. Because we have financial records that show it. So they were democrats were heavily involved working with ukrainians to dirty up the Trump Campaign in 2016. So ambassador, i want to go through just a few of the incidents that we know. I know you may not know all about them. You may know about them now. But i want to walk through some of those examples of why the president may be very upset with ukraine and think that they
Heard from the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, who said President Trumps phone call at the heart of this investigation was attempted bribery. That is significant, those choice of words. Now this morning we are going to hear from Marie Yovanovitch. She was the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine from august 2016 until President Trump recalled her six months ago. Yovanovitch says she was removed because she stood in the way of getting ukraines government to investigate joibd and his son hunter and a Conspiracy Theory. Lets go back inside the hearing room as we watch some of the arrives there in what is expected to be a day of discovery by the house democrats. And we will see the republican strategy. We have got a team of correspondent entz covering this from capitol hill to the white house. Margaret brennan joins us here, our host of face the nation. I know you have been speaking with people close to the ambassador. What is she likely the say today . What are we likely to learn . It will be
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