Marie Yovanovitch: “But then Zelenskyy was elected president. I think Putin thought that he could manipulate Zelenskyy. He was sorely…”

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 couldn't believe it. I mean, again, shock. Appalled. Devastated. That the president of the United States would take any ambassador like that to a foreign head of state. And it was me. I mean, I couldn't believe it.

If our chief representative is kneecapped, it limits our effectiveness to safeguard the vital national security interest of the United States.

I think that what we're seeing now is about... tearing down the international order that has served us so well since World War II.