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We will hear from gordon sondland himself whether he testifies in public on wednesday. that p brings us to today's ope hearing, the second in the impeachment investigation. as we mentioned, congress heard from ousted ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovich. she started with a description of her time as a diplomat representing our country. >> i have moved 13 times and served in seven different h countries, five of them hardship posts. my first tour was mogadishu, somalia, an increasingly t dangerous place as that a country's civil war kept s s grinding on. i helped open our embassy in uzbekistan...

Amended his first version of closed doors testimony once. and in plain english here, he now has a lot of explaining to do. we will hear from gordon sondland himself when he testifies in public on wednesday. that brings us to today's open hearing, the second in the 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 incr...

Person in the world personally coming after you. there's a lot of people out there, you know, who take that as a clarion call to go ahead and take action. >> one of the gifts of the united states government, democratic president and republican presidents, one of the gifts of the job is when you meet these people when had you travel the world. they are people who don't make a lot of money. who are away from their families and could teach and be lawyers and have consulting and lobbying jobs here in washington, d.c. they are all around the world. i never knew whether they were democrats or republ...

And see what happens in the cross examination. if you are not moved by the testimony of marie yovanovitch today, you don't have a pulse. this is a woman who had served in seven posts for presidents of both parties over more than 30 years. hardship posts, places like somalia, and she tells the story of being a leading fighter against corruption in ukraine. and being called out of a meeting to -- that was an event at the u.s. embassy that was to honor an anti-corruption fighter who was later killed because acid was thrown into that woman's face and she is being told by the secretary general at t...

Hardship posts. my first tour was mogadishu, somalia. dangerous place as the civil war was grinding on and the government was weakening. the military took over policing functions in a particular tlarly brutal way and basic services disappeared. several years later, after the soviet union collapsed, i helped open our embassy in kyrgyzstan. as we were establishing relations with a new country our small embassy was attacked by a gunman 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...