Marie Yovanovitch: “Our sanctions on Russia will remain in place until it fully implements its Minsk commitments.”

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.

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.'

He's gone from being a comedian, to being a president to being a war hero, a world leader like I have not seen, you know, perhaps since World War II.

I think he needs to knock it out of the park with that speech, again, emphasizing western unity, American leadership and calling Russia out for what it is and then explaining once again why Ukraine matters, why this is a greater battle of…