Marie Yovanovitch: “building capacity within the journalistic community, within civil society so that they themselves can get their own good…”

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

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

Supporting Ukraine is the right thing to do. It's also the smart thing to do. If Russia prevails, and Ukraine falls to Russian dominion, we can expect to see other attempts by Russia to expand its territory and its influence.

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.