Along. Listen to the horowitz account. The fbi investigation that is the subject of this report crossfire hurricane was open july 31, 2016, days after the fbi received reporting from a friendly Foreign Government. The reporting stated in a may 2016 meeting with the friendly Foreign Government Trump Campaign advisor George Papadopoulos suggested the trump team received some kind of a suggestion close quote from russia that could assist in the election process with the anonymous release of information during the cap pain that would be damaging to candidate clinton and then president obama. Lou can you imagine . And the doj Inspector General declared a failure by the entire chain of command involved in the operation of crossfire hurricane. Horowitz details the negligence and errors by those in the fbi, then claimed as he did in his report that he could not find any evidence of political bias whatsoever. Apparently content to not consider the remote and unlikely odds that downer and papado
Along. Listen to the horowitz account. The fbi investigation that is the subject of this report crossfire hurricane was open july 31, 2016, days after the fbi received reporting from a friendly Foreign Government. The reporting stated in a may 2016 meeting with the friendly Foreign Government Trump Campaign advisor George Papadopoulos suggested the trump team received some kind of a suggestion close quote from russia that could assist in the election process with the anonymous release of information during the cap pain that would be damaging to candidate clinton and then president obama. Lou can you imagine . And the doj Inspector General declared a failure by the entire chain of command involved in the operation of crossfire hurricane. Horowitz details the negligence and errors by those in the fbi, then claimed as he did in his report that he could not find any evidence of political bias whatsoever. Apparently content to not consider the remote and unlikely odds that downer and papado
Been. As well as others both in president bush and as administration as well as in others lenski administration has been a good partner to the United States as i think i told you before hes a very practical man and looking for partners and getting the job done im shocked that social media would be the site of negative comments on. The. You certainly can understand that. The president aware of minister of archives you know statements aware of what mr le shankar was up to with ambassador charlie was our view. And these other elements that weve discussed that there certainly forms a reasonable basis to wonder whether there are influential. You know elements of the ukrainian establishment that were out to get the president. I you know again i mean i cant speak for what President Trump thought or what others thought i would just say that those elements that youve are cited dont seem to me to be the ukrainian you know kind of a plan or a plot of the Ukrainian Government to work against. Pres
Committee. This seems more appropriate for the subcommittee on Human Resources at the Foreign Affairs committee, if theres issues with implement, disagree was with the administration it would seem like it would be more appropriate setting instead of at impeachment hearing where the ambassador is not a material fact witness to anything, any of the accusations that are being hurled at the president for this impeachment inquiry. I have several questions i think, mr. Castor wants to get to. I know ms. Stefanik him give a few quick question for the ambassador. Yield to you, ms. Stefanik. Thank you, mr. Nunes. Ambassador yovanovitch, the gentlewoman will suspend. What is the interruption for this time . It is our time. You are not recognized. Mr. Nunes, you are i just recognize under 660 youre not allowed deal time except to spin is the Ranking Member yield a time to another thats not accurate. That is accurate. Ambassador yovanovitch, i want to thank you for being here today. You are not re
Inquiry, without objection the chairman reserves the right to call recess. make an Opening Statement and representative nunes will make an Opening Statement and well turn to the witness for Opening Statement and then to questions. For audience members we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn, we ask for your respect as we proceed with todays hearing. It is the intention of the committee to proceed without disruptions. As chairman ill take all necessary and appropriate steps to maintain order to ensure that the committee is run in accordance with house rules and House Resolution 660. With that i now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement in the impeachment inquiry into donald j. Trump, the 45th president of the United States. In april, 2019 the United States ambassador to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was in kiev when she was called by a Senior State Department official and told to get on the next plane back to washington. Upon her return to d. C. She was infor