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insult insulted as you did today essentially blaming you for somalia. as if this is another step by the president to intimidate witnesses. he didn t intimidate you. you re here. you ve endured. but there are other people out there that can expect the trump treatment if they come forward. that s a question for us. now, you also indicated that the president has a prerogative to appoint a non-career person and to be candid, republican presidents and democratic presidents have done that. the mr. sondland s transcript is out and he was someone who indicated that everything hinged, this the white house meeting and the release of the vital defensive aid. everything hinged on the president, president zelensky, being willing to do that investigation that would benefit the trump campaign. you re aware of that? yes. and you ve indicated that s something that you would not agree to do. yes. and sondland was quite willing to do. apparently, so. i thank you for your professi ....
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 ....
and her woman of courage award stemmed from her anti-corruption efforts in ukraine? yes. that is true. was it ever determined who threw the acid and killed her? there have been investigations, but while some of the lower-ranking individuals that were involved in this have been arrested, those who ordered this have not yet been apprehended. after you stepped away from this anti-corruption event to take this call, what did the director general tell you? she said that there was great concern on the seventh floor of the state department. that s where the leadership of the state department sits. there was great concern. they were worried. she just wanted to give me a heads up about this and things seemed to be going on. so she wanted to give me a heads up. hard to know how to react to something like that, i asked her what was it about, what did she think it was about. she didn t know. she said that she was going to try and find out more, but she wanted to give me a head ....
The better part of a year. they tried to slow walk his demand to fire her several times until he got frustrated enough where they couldn t protect her anymore. we saw that on friday, what a compelling witness she is. you have bill taylor, you talk about alex vindman, these are career officials, career diplomats who have taken hardship posts, who are recipients of purple hearts and bronze stars. the very definition of compelling witnesses. now giving trump side has been gordon sondland, who we ve already had questions come up about his testimony behind closed doors already. and you look at his background. he raised mouny for a democratic governor in org gon and he raised money for romney and got a spot on the transition committee, he raised money for trump and got a post to eu ambassador. he s the definition of the swamp that trump swore he would drain. ....
Impeachment investigation. as we mentioned, congress heard from ousted ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch. she started with a description of her time as a diplomat representing our country. i have moved 13 times and served in seven different countries, five of them hardship posts. my first tour was mogadishu, somalia, an increasingly dangerous place as that country s civil war kept grinding on. i helped open our embassy in uzbekistan. as we were establishing relations with a new country, our small embassy was attacked by gunmen who sprayed the embassy building with gunfire. i later served in moscow. in 1993, during the attempted coup in russia, i was caught in crossfire between presidential and parliamentary forces. we have established this ambassador doesn t scare easily. she then went on to describe how she was removed from her post in ukraine and her reaction when ....