Marie Yovanovitch: “He has become a wartime president, the president that the Ukrainian people needed at this particular moment in time.”

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.

I think that he was hoping that this would be -- he believed, no doubt, that this would be an easy, victorious campaign, and it would boost his popularity ratings as he’s starting to go into the 2024 presidential elections.

But right now, the entire country, the entire political spectrum is united behind President Zelenskyy to fight the common foe, which is Russia.

How could our system fail like this? How is it that foreign, corrupt interests can manipulate our government? Which country`s interests are served when the very corrupt behavior we are criticizing is allowed to prevail? Such conduct…