he s one of the more influential officials in the ukraine, correct? yes. i believe he s one of the few that stands with lutsenko and the zelensky administration. yes, that s correct. look k back at hing back a , hindsight, who was doing what? he was out to get him. he said some nasty things. sometimes that happens on social media. and are you asking me whether it is appropriate, probably not. but i would say that minister ivankoff has been as well as others both in lutsenko and
zelensky administration have been a good partner to the united states as i think i told you before. he s a practical man and looking for partners and getting the job done. i am shocked that social media would be the sight of negative comments. you certainly can understand that the president aware of the minister s statement and aware of what mr. lutsenko was up to and these other elements that we have discussed, there are forms of reasonable bases to wonder why there are influential elemen
The mifirst is the role of the president when it comes to appointing our ambassadors and long standing corruption in ukraine and the third is aid to ukraine. earlier this week as you know we heard from george kent and i know mr. kent is a colleague and friend who you deeply respect, in his testimony, he stated all ambassadors serve the pleasure of the president. you would agree with that statement, kr e-connecorrect? yes. he elaborated and went onto emphasize, this is not a question, everybody understands that. you agree with that? yes. although i understand, everyone understands that i serve at the pleasure of the president, is that correct? yes. just so there is no public confusion, you are still an employee of the state department, correct? yes. you said you personally asked whether it would be possible to be a fellow at georgetown university and that was arranged for me and i am grateful.
a letter from speaker pelosi. we also expect that for the whistleblower to speak directly to the house and intelligence. i look forward to you oiling that statements to the speaker. ambassador, thank you very much for a long service to our country and behalf of our nation. what was going on around the phone call? i like the folks more of what has happened since then to you and your career and what s going. there is a process that you go through and pick what you do next. can you give us a quick statement of what happened when you came back here and what s your next assignment would be in state? when i came back, it was out of cycle, there was nothing set up. again, i am grateful that deputy
Do our mission, were able to successfully conduct a campaign of disinformation against a sitting ambassador using unofficial back channels. now as i listened to you make that statement, i was thinking of all the other persons in the foreign service who have to be concerned that it s not good enough to follow the stated u.s. foreign policy but also to be aware that maybe the president has a back channel of interests that he is promoting that is diametrically opposed to our state foreign policy. can you expand on that, please? well, i think it s important that whoever is representing the president and ambassador speaks with the full authority of the president in our foreign policy establishment, and if there are
Welcome, as i said last, a couple of days ago, to the witnesses, welcome to year four of the impeachment proceedings. i m sorry that you have gotten dragged into this. for three years we ve heard these outrageous and, frankly, unbelievable accusations regarding russian collusion. accusations that we now know are absolute nonsense. there was no basis at all despite promises from some members of this committee that they had secret proof that would prove this collusion. we know that it was nonsense. in year four we apparently move to ukraine and quid pro quo, culminating yesterday when the speaker announced that the president would indeed be impeached and removed from office for bribery. with that statement, i would now feel compelled to ask you, madam ambassador, as you sit here before us, simply and directly, do you have any information regarding the president of the united states accepting any