Marie Yovanovitch: “I think that he was hoping that this would be -- he believed, no doubt, that this would be an easy, victorious campaign…”

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

I think if the world starts following the path of Vladimir Putin, we are going to be less prosperous, certainly less secure, and have far fewer freedoms.

I think we need to ask ourselves, as the international community, how do we help the Ukraine, how do we support Ukraine, how do we save Ukraine without expanding the war in ways that nobody wants to see?

I think that President Putin was getting what he needed out of the Trump administration.