Yovanovitch the ousted ambassador to ukraine told congress she felt threatened by trump add his cronies Smear Campaign against her, trump offered a fresh real time threat during her testimony. A thuggish unprecedented display by an american president that led to this q and a between ambassador yovanovitch and House Intelligence Committee chairman adam schiff. Now the president in real time is attacking you. What effect do you think that has on other witnesses willingness to come forward and expose wrong doing . Well, its very intimidating. I mean, i cant speak to what the president is trying to do, but i think the effect is to be intimidating. Well, i want to let you know ambassador that some of us here tane very seriously. Yovanovitchs dramatic testimony, so compelling that even some anchors on truch tv had to admit it wasnt the only block buster news of the game. Roger stone became a convicted felon and on friday night came the deposition of david holmes. A state Department Official
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investigation, and i think that is key to this impeachment inquiry. and let me play for you, malcolm, larry pfiefer. i had him on when i was filling in for lawrence o donnell on thursday night, about that very call. and he used to run the white house situation room, so he knows exactly how this is supposed to work. here s larry pfiefer on thursday. normally an ambassador doesn t talk to the president of the united states on any kind of a telephone call on any routine basis. number two, you have this being done over a nonsecure device that could be readily intercepted by a number of foreign governments, but in this case, particularly russia, given how wired the country of ukraine is. and just a little bit of what david holmes, who apparently overheard that call, malcolm, heard. he said, in particular, i asked ambassador sondland if it was true that the president did not
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but i didn t know it was going to work out this quickly. i didn t know it would work out this well. it s a great day for the united states. it s a great day for kuturkey. it s really a great day for civilization. it s a great day for civilization. breaking news, president trump celebrating the u.s.-brokered deal with turkey as a great day for civilization just days but right now that cease-fire isn t holding. nbc news has confirmed that fighting is still happening in the kurdish territory with turkish-backed militias actively engagie ining kurdish forces. brett mcgurk is former envoy for the global coalition to defeat isis and msnbc senior foreign affairs analyst and larry pfiefer, former chief of staff to the cia during the bush administration and former senior director of the white house situation room during the obama administration. brett, let me start with you. are you surprised that the cease-fire isn t holding? well, no. i think what the cease-fire is, is basically, it orde
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