Marie Yovanovitch: “I think that gave Vladimir Putin a lot of encouragement that the United States was, you know, certainly not the Trump…”

I think this is absolutely essential for all government agencies, because we are the continuity of government and we need to be able to serve every president that`s elected in a nonpartisan way.

I was the target of a 'smear campaign' by the President and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani. I called Giuliani's work a 'campaign of misinformation.'

Everything we`ve seen is that Putin is not yet on a path to an off ramp and that he will double down. And the Ukrainian people are the ones that are going to pay the price. But so are the Russian people. And I think that`s important to…

He has become a wartime president, the president that the Ukrainian people needed at this particular moment in time.