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News is very own economy he is in kiev in ukraine with that part of the story to both of you welcome nick let me start with you the testimony today as we ve been saying it was very damning for the u.s. president and it wasn t exactly flattering to the leadership in ukraine what s been the reaction where you are to what we heard today. well brant the government here in present staying as tight lipped as they have throughout there s very little in this for them to gain by saying anything either way they ll either offend the current white house and the trump team or the democrats so they seem to think it s better just to try to lie low and wait for this all to pass them by obviously as these impeachment hearings gather pace that may longer be possible in terms of the flattery or the implication they were willing to open these ....
A lot in my time and mr secor burger you saying you re not qualified to be a content monitor now congresswoman that s not him so then you re saying you re not willing to do it. that was just one of the many dressing downs that facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg endured today on capitol hill mr zuckerberg went to washington this time hoping to convince lawmakers to support his company s new digital currency libor but it didn t quite work out as planned to talk about that i m joined now here at the big table by severe diogo mighty as she manages de w. s main english language facebook page and she works on social media strategy she knows a thing or 2 about facebook s if it s good to have you on the show. what what was your impression today just by the the the appearance of the performance of zuckerberg i mean was he clueless as to why these lawmakers were being so critical well brant i would say he was clueless i think he was a lot more prepared than last time clearly the facebook staff made ....
The way through about putting pressure on russia to get their attention to create a negotiation support for ukraine partnership with our european allies and a negotiating proposition on the table that we would be prepared to the silicate a un peacekeeping mission to go into eastern ukraine create security create the conditions where there can be elections and the minsk agreements can be implemented and then see the territory restored so i think everything is in place but we need is not from the trump administration what we need is from russia and that is a serious effort by russia to end the war all right so nick is that the image there that we saw is that the image that kurt volker had in kiev i mean what was his reputation in ukraine. well brant had a reputation here of being a friend of ukraine someone who. represented a more traditional republican foreign policy approach towards russia a more hawkish line on russia than we ve seen from president trump himself and as ....
The way through about putting pressure on russia to get their attention to create a negotiation support for ukraine partnership with our european allies and a negotiating power position on the table that we would be prepared to the silicate a un peacekeeping mission to go into eastern ukraine create security create the conditions where there can be elections in the men s could be implemented and then see the territory restored so i think everything is in place but we need is not from the trunk administration what we need is from russia and that is a serious effort by russia to end the war all right so nick is that the image there that we saw is that the image that kurt volker had in kiev i mean what was his reputation in ukraine. well brant had a reputation here of being a friend of ukraine someone who. represented a more traditional republican foreign policy approach towards russia a more hawkish line on russia than we ve seen from president trump himself and as ....
United states all right here it is for the u.k. has one of the largest diplomatic footprints of any country with embassies in missions around the world this reach is hugely valuable and the americans recognize this the u.s. has no diplomatic presence in pyongyang or tehran we have had ambassadors and teams in north korea since the early 2000 and in iran since 1821 the united states relies on us to be its eyes and ears in places where it has not been there the ambassador talking about why the u.s. needs us helena if the u.k. ambassador if he s highly aware of the worth of british diplomats what about the u.s. president is he aware of how much he needs them. well brant you do have to wonder i m essentially on monday we saw the u.s. president declare the british ambassador persona non grata saying that he would not ....