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Democratic voters support allowing all adults to the buy into medicare. if you go back to august 2017, the majority of of americans thought medicare for all was a good idea. speak of the more you learn about it, the less you like. i will start with the state of vermont, a single medicare for all system, so expensive, the governor said we have to raise taxes so high that they decided to scrap it. colorado, a swing state where voters got to vote on a government that's all, all parts of health care, rejected by voters. come back to massachusetts, an area that's been working in the health care are...

Note that i'm not a political appointee nor engaged in u.s. politics in any way. it is not my job to cover or advise on u.s. politics. on the contrary, i am an apolitical foreign policy professional and my job is to focus on the politics of the country in which i serve, so that we can better understand the local landscape and better advance u.s. national interests there. in fact, during the period that we'll cover today, my colleagues and i followed direct guidance from sdof yovanovitch and ambassador taylor to focus on doing our jobs as foreign policy professionals and to stay clear of washin...

A career foreign service officer with the department of state. since august 2017, i have been the political counselor at the u.s. embassy in kyiv, ukraine. while it is an honor to appear before you today, i want to make clear that i did not seek this opportunity to testify today. since you determined that i may have something of value to these proceedings and issued a subpoena, it is my obligation to appear and to tell you what i know. indeed, as secretary pompeo has stated, i hope everyone who testifies will do so truthfully and accurately. when they do, the oversight role will have been perf...

Career foreign service officer with the department of state. since august 2017 i have been the political counselor at the u.s. embassy in kiev, ukraine. while it is an honor to appear before you today, i want to make clear that i did not seek this opportunity to testify today. since you determined that i may have something of value to these proceedings and issued a subpoena it is my obligation to appear and tell you what i know. indeed as secretary pompeo has stated, i hope everyone who testifies will do so truthfully and accurately. when they do the oversight role will have been performed and...

Appointee or engaged in u.s. politics in any way. it is not my job to cover or advise on u.s. politics. on the contrary, i'm an apolitical foreign policy professional and my job is to focus on the politics of the country in which i serve so that we can better understand the local landscape and better advance u.s. national interests there. in fact, during the period we'll cover today my colleagues and i followed direct guidance from ambassador yovanovitch and ambassador taylor to focus on doing our jobs as foreign policy professionals and to stay clear of washington politics. i arrived in kiev ...