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Plemting the administration's policy on ukraine. in the spring of 2019, i became aware of outside influencers promoting a false narrative of ukraine inconsistent with the consensus views of the interagency. this narrative was harmful to u.s. government policy. while my interagency colleagues and i were becoming increasingly optimistic on ukraine's prospects, this alternative narrative undermined u.s. government efforts to expand cooperation with ukraine. so many officials were concerned about this alternative narrative, it shows how deep the concerns went, right? >> oh, exactly, don. and the f...

He said, in the spring of 2019, i became aware of outside influencers promoting a false narrative of ukraine inconsistent with the consensus views of the interagency. this narrative was harmful to u.s. government -- u.s. government policy while my interagency colleagues were becoming increasingly optimistic on ukraine's prospects, this alternative narrative undermined u.s. government efforts to expand cooperation with ukraine. the colonel, who received, as i said, a purple heart after being wounded in iraq also saying this. i am a patriot, and it is my sacred duty and honor to advance and defe...

Investigate joe biden. he was so disturbed by what he heard and so concerned that it was damaging to u.s. interests that he reported it twice. so let's discuss now. the perfect guest, i'm so happy to have the former ambassador to the u.n. here, national security adviser to president barack obama susan rice. she is the author of "tough love: my story of the things worth fighting for." we're going to talk about all of that, talk about your book. i'm so happy to have you here. i really am. >> it's great to be with you, don. it's been too long. >> you can offer great perspective. absolutely. i wan...

Interagency colleagues were becoming increasingly optimistic on ukraine's prospects, this alternative narrative undermined u.s. government efforts to expand cooperation with ukraine. the colonel, who received, as i said, a purple heart after being wounded in iraq also saying this. i am a patriot, and it is my sacred duty and honor to advance and defend our country irrespective of party or politics. colonel vindman will be the first white house official to testify who was himself on the call, a decorated military veteran. he has some credentials that will be very hard to deny here and to impugn...

Narrative, it shows how deep the concerns went, right? >> oh, exactly, don. and the fact that this has been borne out by, in my view, very credible people, most notably for me ambassador taylor, now colonel vindman, and i think as well as what was reflected in the whistle-blower complaint. and i think they were reflecting probably -- almost certainly the views of many others who had ukraine as part of their portfolio. it was very disturbing to them and rightfully so. >> so vindman also writes about the july 10th meeting between top. administration and ukrainian officials, okay? he says, "on ju...