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With a drcirect channel to the white house. that change began with the emorni emergence of press reports critical of yovanovitch and lutsenko and others to discredit her. in mid-march 2019, an embassy colleague learned that mr. lutsenko had complained that ambassador yovanovitch had, quote, destroyed him with her refusal to support him until he followed through with his reform commitments and ceased using his position for personal gain. in retaliation, mr. lutsenko made a series of unreported al...

That change began with the emergence of press reports critical of ambassador yovanovitch and mass nations by lutsenko and others to discredit her. in mid-march 2019 an embassy colleague learned from a ukraine colleague that mr. lutsenko had complained that ambassador yovanovitch had quote destroyed him with her refusal to support him until he followed through with his reform commitments and ceased using his position for personal gain. in retaliation, mr. lutsenko made a series of unsupported all...

Investigation of donald trumps arrival, the one that he apparently feared the most. and they were willing to do whatever was necessary to get ukraine to do that dirty work, to do that political investigation. and so it began, we are not going to set up a phone call until you make certain commitments. that was ambassador sondlands testimony. the first quid pro quo was getting on the phone with president trump. and then there was the quid pro quo involving the white house meeting. witness after wi...

Our international commitments. were going to recommit to our partnerships and alliances including nato. and it was james mattis that said the more you invest in dumad diplomats and diplomacy the less you have to spend on ammunition. that has to help build a consensus not just against russia but build a coalition that would help us put pressure against china in terms of treatment of their ethnic minorities and whats going on in hong kong. and i want to propose a wto for data because unfortunately...

The interest of course was in an investigation of donald trumps rival, the one that he apparently feared the most. and they were willing to do whatever was necessary to get ukraine to do that dirty work, to do that political investigation. and so it began we are not going to set up a phone call until you would make certain commitments. the first quid pro quo was actually just getting on the phone with president trump. and then there was the quid pro quo involving the white house meeting. and wit...

>> thank you, senator. ashley? >> thank you. mr. yang, if you win the 2020 election, what would you say in your first call with russian president vladimir putin? >> well, first id say, im sorry i beat your guy. [ applause ] or not sorry. and second i would say the days of meddling in american elections are over, and we will take any undermining of our democratic processes as an act of hostility and aggression. the american people would back me on this. we know they found an underbelly and theyve...

Do you recall using that expression? >> yeah. it goes back to my earlier comment that, again, coming from the giuliani source because we didnt discuss this specifically with president trump that they wanted whatever commitments ukraine made to be made publicly so they would be on the record and be held more accountable. whatever those commitments were. >> you also testified or ambassador taylor rather testified that you told him that you had made a mistake in telling ukrainians only the white ho...

Implemented in. im just going to lay it all on the line and cut donald trump loose. or im going to take the fifth because there arent any other options here for sondland. i think thats why the possibility that he might take the fifth is one that people are taking seriously. hes finally ready to see the forest through the trees. im done with donald trump because donald trump is clearly done with me. >> look at the precedent, mika. youve got roger stone. youve got paul manafort. youve got michael ...

A rather method cal case with witness by witness drawing out the story. the story theyre telling from the edges and moving in is the story of the president of the united states pressuring a foreign leader for his own personal political purpose. and he was doing that in a way that wasnt just not in the national interest but actually contrary not national interest. we heard all three of the foreign diplomats foreign service officers testify over last week about how deeply harmful and corrosive thi...

Dollars of trade between the u.s. and its closest neighbors, canada and mexico, its also president trumps number one legislative priority. she used the word emanate to describe this, but behind the scenes there were more encouraging signs from the white house from the democratic house caucus meeting yesterday. a number of meetings im told from sources including a source in the room spoke up in support of the deal, including several members who said they wouldnt get re-elected if it didnt pass. s...