Heard from the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, who said President Trumps phone call at the heart of this investigation was attempted bribery. That is significant, those choice of words. Now this morning we are going to hear from Marie Yovanovitch. She was the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine from august 2016 until President Trump recalled her six months ago. Yovanovitch says she was removed because she stood in the way of getting ukraines government to investigate joibd and his son hunter and a Conspiracy Theory. Lets go back inside the hearing room as we watch some of the arrives there in what is expected to be a day of discovery by the house democrats. And we will see the republican strategy. We have got a team of correspondent entz covering this from capitol hill to the white house. Margaret brennan joins us here, our host of face the nation. I know you have been speaking with people close to the ambassador. What is she likely the say today . What are we likely to learn . It will be
Democrats. Today, a third career diplomat will testify, Marie Yovanovitch who was fired from her po ambassador of the ukraine. She was fired in may. I want to bring in mary bruce on capitol hill. Shes going to say that President Trump fired her after what she called a Smear Campaign from Rudy Giuliani. Reporter george, Marie Yovanovitch says she was fired from her job for essentially doing her job. Saying the president lost confidence in her, and now she will have a chance before the American People to tell her side of the story. She said she was blindsided when she was forced out of more than three decades of public service, and she was shocked and even felt threatened when the president said she was bad news. Democrats will argue shes the first victim of the president s shadow diplomacy in ukraine. They are going to use the ambassador to try and put a personal face to their argument. They will say that she was forced out for standing in the way of the politically motivated investigat
0 has been undergoing constant revision since 9/11 when it was discovered that some of the hijackers who came here to attend flight school or dropped out or never even showed up. the government began to get better tracking of students, when they come here on a student visa, are they in school? are they staying in school to maintain the validity of their visas? now they re trying to make that information almost real-time to the border patrol officers. because one of the friends of dzhokhar, when he came back into the country in the interim, while he had been gone, he had stopped attending classes, his visa was no longer valid. but he was admitted nonetheless and that s what they re trying now to tighten up even further, andrea. pete williams, thanks very much. president obama today about to leave mexico for costa rica. the second leg of his latin american trip. he promised a university audience in mexico city, he s going to fight for immigration reform. we also know that as nation
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