you are recognized. thank you. madame ambassador, like a hallmark movie. you ended up at georgetown, this is all okay. [laughter] but it was not your preference seven or eight months ago, correct? no, it was not. it was not your preference to be a victim of a smear campaign, was it? no. it was not your preference to be defamed by the president of the united states including today, was it? no. it wasn t your preference to be ousted at seemingly the pinnacle of your career, was it? no. you wanted to finish your extended tour, correct? i did. what did you want to do after that? did you know? i was not sure. there is nothing wrong with georgetown, it is a fine place, right? it is a wonderful place. but it is your only choice at the end of a distinguished career after all of that. it is not the end of a hallmark movie. it is the end of a really bad reality tv show. brought to you by someone who knows a lot about that. [laughter] why did you, you previously t
somalia. as if this is another step by the president to intimidate witnesses. he did not intimidate to you. you are here. you have endured. there are other people out there that can expect this before treatment if they come forward. that is a question for us. you also indicated that the president has a prerogative to appoint a noncareer person, and to be candid, republican presidents and democratic presidents have done that. mr. sondland s transcript is out, and he was someone who indicated that everything hinged, the white house meeting and the release of the vital
defensive aid, everything hinged on the president president zelensky being able to do that election that would benefit the trump campaign. you are aware of that? yes. and you have indicated that would be something that you would not agree to do? yes. and sondland was quite willing to do? apparently so. i think you for your professional service and a yield back. ambassador yovanovitch, thank you for being
does. but his aides and his campaign, the white house, they have been sending out very negative messages about lieutenant colonel vindman. they tried to use something morrison said behind closed doors when he said there were people that questioned vindman s judgment at nsc, specifically fiona hill that we ll hear from thursday. i his opening statement, i think he realized how much play that has got. he said he wasn t here to criticize his colleagues. saw vindman prepared to address it as he was there to testify earlier. he brought a performance review from fiona hill, the official, that morrison had the conversation with, where it praised him multiple times and his performance in the job. you see tim morrison and kurt volker, beginning to walk back in. they ll sit down and the hearing will resume. the next round will be the five minute sessions where all of the members, democrats and
republicans, they have five minutes to ask questions. it will start with the chairman, adam schi
what s 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 it s allenwood, lewisberg, something much less pleasant, where they don t have a tennis court, where there s 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 he s sentenced to prison, that s not up to anyone other than the bureau of prisons. didn t barr get involved with manafo manafort? the bureau of prisons does report to the attorney general. but in almost every case i ve heard of, it s a designation based on risk and how much time
is to be served. a second point, i also think roger stone has rendered himself absolutely useless. he has lied almost every time he s opened his mouth. it would be very hard for prosecutors to turn to him now to get additional information that they could use against others. roger stone is us
to investigate what happened in the past and apply its own laws. no one in the new team had anything to do with anything that may have happened in 2016. they were making television shows at the time. iral i also said it is credible to me that he would have been influenced by financial or personal motives in carrying out duties as vice president. a different issue is whether some individual ukrainians may have attempted to influence the 2016 election or thought they could buy influence. that is at least plausible given ukraine s reputation for corruption. the accusation that he acted independently did not seem credible to me. i connected mayor giuliani and the aide by text lantand later t i phone.
they met in person on august 2, 2019. in conversations with me following that meeting which i did not attend, mr. giuliani said that he had stressed the importance of ukraine conducting investigations into what happened in the past and mr. yermoc stressed, he said it is their position to co
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
collecting it, they were not passing it to you, they were passing it to state department? department of defense? this is what they reported to me. i have not seen the documents that have been collected. i only know those documents that i have produced or that my staff at my staff has brought to my attention or that i have received. so no, i do not know what has happened with the documents that have been collected. same general question to you, sir. i requested it wants given access to documents that had originated or were sent to me for the pertinent matters of this investigation during a finite. back. i don t have information about what is going on in terms of other documents that i did not produce or do not receive. there was a move to gather them, and i understood generally and directly and informally that they had been gathered. that is the extent of my knowledge. it is not my area of
responsibility. yes, but did they pass them on to you or did they pass them on to the a
expired. i d like to have that unanimous consent mr. quigley, you re recognized, mr. quigley, you re recognized. thank you. madam ambassador, it s like a hallmark movie. you ended up at georgetown, this is all okay. [ laughter ] it wasn t your preference seven, eight months ago, correct? no, it was not. it wasn t your preference to be the victim of a cemetery campaign, was it? no. it wasn t your preference to be defamed by the president of the united states including today, was it? no. it wasn t your preference to be ousted at seemingly the pinnacle of your career, was it? no. you wanted to finish your extended tour, correct? i did. what did you want to do after that? did you know? i wasn t sure. there s nothing wrong with georgetown. it s a fine place, right? it s a wonderful place. but it s your own choice at the end of the distinguished career after all that. it s not the end of a hallmark movie. it s the end of a really bad reality tv show bro
concerning the allegations, i stressed that no one in the new team governing ukraine had anything to do with anything that may have happened in 2016. they were making television shows at the time. i also said that it is not credible to me that former vice president biden would have been influenced in any way by financial or personal motives in carrying out his duties as vice president. a different issue is whether some individual ukrainians may have attempted to influence the 2016 election or thought they would buy influence. that is at least plausible given ukraine s reputation for corruption. but the accusation that vice president biden acted inappropriately did not seem at all credible to me. after that meeting, i connected mayor giuliani and mr. yermak by text and later by phone. they met in person on august 2nd, 2019. in conversations with me following that meeting, which i
did not attend, mr. giuliani said that he had stressed the importance of ukraine conducting investigation