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Personal attorney, rudy giuliani, and that the president was listening. >> is it your understanding, then, that president trump disregarded the advice of his senior officials about this theory and instead listened to rudy giuliani's views? >> that appears to be the case, yes. >> reporter: hill says she watched as giuliani launched a smear campaign against the u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch. hill went to her boss, former national security adviser, john bolton. >> i'd asked if there was anything we could do about it, and ambassador bolton had looked pained, basically indicated wit...

Ambassador yovanovitch was being smeared and attacked. i asked if there was anything we could do about it and ambassador bolton had looked pained, basically indicated with body language that there was nothing which we could do about it and he then in the course of that discussion said, that rudy giuliani was a hand grenade that was going to blow everyone up. >> did you understand what he meant by that? >> i ddid, actually. >> what did he mean? >> well, i think he meant that obviously he what mr. giuliani was saying was pretty explosive in any case and he was frequently on television making inc...

>> you think there is a tinge of impeachment legal goldilocks here, but you think initially they were going too slow and now they're going too fast? >> i thought they should have started these proceedings a long time ago, but once you start them, i guess, i don't really see why the full spectrum of corruption in this administration can't be plumbed at more length than to basically try and get these hearings done in two weeks. >> ryan, take a listen to fiona hill today working so closely with bolton on these concerns. >> ambassador bolton basically looked pained, indicated with body language th...

>> was one of the first if not the first to report that john bolton, former national security advisor was actively trying to distance himself from what a lot of witnesses have called an unofficial second policy channel with ukraine. in reaction to the rudy giuliani, bolton said his reaction was pained. he directly said rudy giuliani is a hand grenade that is going to blow everybody up. then in response to a question about him specifically, she adds that you try to distance herself from him too saying the more you engage with someone who was spreading untruth, the more validity you give to thos...

This?" "his reaction was pained. he directly said rudy giuliani is a hand grenade that is going to blow everybody up. he made it clear that he didn't feel there was anything he could personally do about this." to be fair to mr. bolton, he was asked to testify yesterday, he did not go with the subpoena. perhaps we will get assessed when at some point. but this is about rudy giuliani, the removal of ambassador marie yovanovitch, and john bolton, former national security advisor. >> melissa: thank you for that. i want to bring it up to the couch. marie, i don't know the answer to this question. i...