former ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch. in a stunning twist giuliani is now acknowledging he wanted yovanovitch out. yovanovitch needed to be removed for many reasons, most critical she was denying visas to ukrainians who wanted to come to the u.s. and explain democrat corruption in ukraine, giuliani tweeted. kent objected to a visa request from shokin due to his ineffectiveness in fighting corruption. yovanovitch corroborated that. did giuliani try to overturn a decision that you participated in to deny shokin a visa? yes, that s what i was told. and that denial was based on mr. shokin s corruption? yes, that s true. a new movie tells the true story of a man who served six years on death row after being wrongly convicted of murder. we ll talk to the man who helped sit him free about why he
company burisma on a foal kahn that s now at the heart of the impeachment proceedings. i m believe there was tremendous corruption with biden. reporter: that s where two more of rudy giuliani s proclaimed witnesses come in. former ukrainian prosecutors general viktor shokin and juri lutsenko. shokin claims he was fired at biden s behest even throw was international consensus that shokin was involved in corruption. his successor who was also forced to leave office for being ineffective was butting heads with marie yovanovitch who was recalled after a spearheading by giuliani. and in a stunning twist giuliani admitting he wanted yovanovitch
biden. that s where two more of rudy giuliani s proclaimed witnesses come in. former ukrainian prosecutors general victor shokin and uri lutsenko. in an interview with the right-wing pro-trump channel aonshokin claims he was fired at biden s behest for investigating burisma even though there was international consensus that shokin was ineffective at fighting corruption. his successor butted heads with marie yovanovitch who was recalled after a smear campaign against her spearheaded by giuliani and in a stunning twist, giuliani is now acknowledging he wanted yovanovitch out. yovanovitch needed to be removed for many reasons, most critical, she was denying visas to ukrainians who wanted to come to u.s. any explain dem corruption
yovanovitch. pulled from her post in may. ambassador yovanovitch is an important witness for the democrats. she could demonstrate this campaign led by the president s personal attorney giuliani to push her out and to push for the investigations into joe biden. their goal in having her testify was to detail how this ran counter to the national interest of the united states. in a detailed opening statement, yovanovitch out lined both confusion and concern. about her removal. ukrainians who prefer to play by the old corrupt rules sought to remove me. what continues to amaze me is that they found americans willing to partner with them and working together they succeeded. less than 90 minutes into the hearing a interruption from chairman schiff. as we sit here testifying the president is attacking you on twitter. what effect does that have on
yovanovitch. she lost that job reportedly because she was expressing concerns about rudy giuliani trying to dig you the dirt in ukraine to help president trump political. sources tell cnn that pompeo was warned back in the spring that it was giuliani who tried to push yovanovitch out. let s bring in kylie atwood. and you learned about a letter sent to pompeo urging him to protect ambassador yovanovitch. reporter: this was sent to the state department in the spring, months ago, former u.s. ambassadors to ukraine in the same shoes that ambassador yovanovitch was in and they were writing to pompeo encouraging the state department to defend against the smear campaign being carried out against her. now they did get response from the state department from the counsel lor at the state department who is a close aide acknowledging receipt and saying it would be considered. now this demonstrates it wasn t in the last few weeks or months