Marie Yovanovitch: “I think that he has grown into that role. I mean, the man has met his moment, and he is a hero.”

Well, I think it just shows that President Trump was using Ukraine as a pawn for his own personal reasons.

I think -- here`s what I know. Russia is not going to prevail. Russia may, overtime, if it really doubles down, they may win the war, but they are never going to win the peace. Because the Ukrainian people will resist, as you are seeing…

I think that gave Vladimir Putin a lot of encouragement that the United States was, you know, certainly not the Trump administration was going to be supporting Ukraine.

It was quite clear that he felt that NATO was not a good institution, that the other allies were taking the U.S. for a ride, and that we were supporting them in ways that we shouldn't be.