Marie Yovanovitch: “I think that he has grown into that role. I mean, the man has met his moment, and he is a hero.”

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.

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

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

I think that he, frankly, didn't really think that much about Ukraine, but he thought a lot about Russia as a great power. And he sort of accepted, I think, Putin's view of Ukraine is not really being a real country.