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yovanovitch, that the state department ig was alarmed enough by that he flagged it as an urgent matter when he came to the hill last week or the week before. jamie raskin showed us some of which that documentation. two of giuliani s business associates, of course, just indicted yesterday, and the indictment makes clear they sought to discredit marie yovanovitch. we also know from some other evidence that there were concerns that rudy giuliani was had a direct influence in president trump s thinking about marie yovanovitch and that is one of the reasons why she was recalled from her post after a decades-long career, not just in ukraine but also in armenia, kyrgyzstan, a real expert in the region. and she feels, according to her opening statement, she was unfairly targeted. it would suggest, because there s there with her outside legal team, that she may have
boss. admiral kirby, one last question, what the heck was in the envelope that the state department inspector general dropped off to congress? i know. i don t know. it seemed to be a collection of papers that giuliani collected, you know, conspiracy theory stories, just sort of odds and ends that had been dumped off on the state department ig by the legal counsel, who got it i guess from giuliani and from pompeo. so it s just a weird collection of material that sort of would support giuliani s conspiracy chase. that said, what s really curious is why did it sit so long? why was it at the state ig department and not brought over sooner? i think we should continue to play and play again the videoed pompeo when he cass congressman, leading the investigation into
thought in this computer system were doing the investigation, he felt that he needed a different kind of investigation. and that is what drove him to the house intelligence committee and the house intelligence committee rerouted him to the inspector general. and i understand that there is a lot going on. geoff, yesterday the state department ig was behind closed doors with three of the committees and we were led it believe or the thinking was that the state department ig would have more about the whistleblower complaint and maybe what was happening behind the scenes at state that pompeo was trying to get people not to testify in front of congress. that is not at all what happened. geoff, what did happen in. jamie raskin was the only lawmaker in the room as the ig
we know that the former ambassador arrived about a half hour ago. our colleagues in that hallway staking out the room have told us that congressman mark meadows and jim jordan have entered the room to watch the proteceedings even though you have staff deshs. wait a minute. i thought it was a staff inquiry with volcker. the staffers are the ones taking the deposition but lawmakers are allowed to walk into this proceeding and watch. we saw that yesterday with jamie ras kin when the state department i.g. met on the senate side and he was there and briefed reporters after the fact. we expect to hear from jim jordan after the deposition happens and we ll have to see what if anything mr. jordan has to add to the record here. here s what i can tell you we expect that kurt volker is telling the investigators and this is based on people familiar with his thinking and people familiar with his role when he served as the special envoy to