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Whats happening, he knows what roger knows about him, how much negotiation is there going to go on right now with sentencing coming, the type of prison, whether its allenwood, lewisberg, something much less pleasant, where they dont have a tennis court, where theres white collar criminals or sleaze balls, how much negotiation is the president capable of right now . In terms of where roger stone is sentenced, if hes sentenced to prison, thats not up to anyone other than the bureau of prisons. Did...

And her woman of courage award stemmed from her anticorruption efforts in ukraine . Yes. That is true. Was it ever determined who threw the acid and killed her . There have been investigations, but while some of the lowerranking individuals that were involved in this have been arrested, those who ordered this have not yet been apprehended. After you stepped away from this anticorruption event to take this call, what did the director general tell you . She said that there was great concern on the...

Insult insulted as you did today essentially blaming you for somalia. As if this is another step by the president to intimidate witnesses. He didnt intimidate you. Youre here. Youve endured. But there are other people out there that can expect the trump treatment if they come forward. Thats a question for us. Now, you also indicated that the president has a prerogative to appoint a noncareer person and to be candid, republican president s and democratic president s have done that. The mr. Sondla...

The better part of a year. they tried to slow walk his demand to fire her several times until he got frustrated enough where they couldnt protect her anymore. we saw that on friday, what a compelling witness she is. you have bill taylor, you talk about alex vindman, these are career officials, career diplomats who have taken hardship posts, who are recipients of purple hearts and bronze stars. the very definition of compelling witnesses. now giving trump side has been gordon sondland, who weve a...

Impeachment investigation. as we mentioned, congress heard from ousted ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch. she started with a description of her time as a diplomat representing our country. >> i have moved 13 times and served in seven different countries, five of them hardship posts. my first tour was mogadishu, somalia, an increasingly dangerous place as that countrys civil war kept grinding on. i helped open our embassy in uzbekistan. as we were establishing relations with a new country, ...

We will hear from gordon sondland himself whether he testifies in public on wednesday. that p brings us to todays ope hearing, the second in the impeachment investigation. as we mentioned, congress heard from ousted ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovich. she started with a description of her time as a diplomat representing our country. >> i have moved 13 times and served in seven different h countries, five of them hardship posts. my first tour was mogadishu, somalia, an increasingly t dangerou...

Amended his first version of closed doors testimony once. and in plain english here, he now has a lot of explaining to do. we will hear from gordon sondland himself when he testifies in public on wednesday. that brings us to todays open hearing, the second in the impeachment investigation. as we mentioned, congress heard from ousted ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch. she started with a description of her time as a diplomat representing our country. >> i have moved 13 times and served in se...

Person in the world personally coming after you. theres a lot of people out there, you know, who take that as a clarion call to go ahead and take action. >> one of the gifts of the united states government, democratic president and republican presidents, one of the gifts of the job is when you meet these people when had you travel the world. they are people who dont make a lot of money. who are away from their families and could teach and be lawyers and have consulting and lobbying jobs here in ...

And see what happens in the cross examination. if you are not moved by the testimony of marie yovanovitch today, you dont have a pulse. this is a woman who had served in seven posts for presidents of both parties over more than 30 years. hardship posts, places like somalia, and she tells the story of being a leading fighter against corruption in ukraine. and being called out of a meeting to -- that was an event at the u.s. embassy that was to honor an anti-corruption fighter who was later killed...

Hardship posts. my first tour was mogadishu, somalia. dangerous place as the civil war was grinding on and the government was weakening. the military took over policing functions in a particular tlarly brutal way and basic services disappeared. several years later, after the soviet union collapsed, i helped open our embassy in kyrgyzstan. 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 i...