Marie Yovanovitch

The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who provided chilling testimony during the Trump impeachment hearings has a book deal

Marie Yovanovitch, who was ousted from her post as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine after a smear campaign by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, has signed a book deal, it was announced Friday. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said it had acquired a memoir by Yovanovich, a key witness and figure in the House inquiry that led to President Donald Trump’s impeachment. “The as-yet-untitled memoir will...

The career U.S. diplomat who was ousted from her post in Ukraine by President Donald Trump is urging college students to follow in her footsteps because the U.S. “needs diplomats that are ready and capable.”

Marie Yovanovitch, the former Ambassador to Ukraine who was ousted by President Donald Trump before testifying against him during his impeachment hearings, warned of the State Department’s welfare under the Trump Administration. “The State Department is in trouble. Senior leaders lack policy vision, moral clarity and leadership skills,” she said during an event to accept the Trainor Award from the...

Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who was removed from her post after unsubstantiated allegations were made against her by President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, has retired from the State Department, NBC News reported. Testifying in defiance of Trump’s ban, Yovanovitch told House impeachment investigators in October that Trump himself had pressured the State Department to…......

President Donald Trump inquired how long Ukraine would be able to resist Russian aggression without U.S. assistance during a 2018 meeting with donors that included the indicted associates of his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. “How long would they last in a fight with Russia?” Trump is heard asking in the audio portion of a video recording, moments before he calls…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has broken three days of silence over the alleged surveillance and threats to the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. In interviews with conservative radio hosts on Friday, Pompeo said he had no knowledge of either until earlier this week when congressional Democrats released documents from an associate of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney suggesting that...

Ukrainian police say they have opened an investigation into the possibility that the former U.S. ambassador came under illegal surveillance before she was recalled from her post.

Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, claimed in an interview that aired Thursday that President Donald Trump fired, or believed he fired, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine several times before her recall was publicly announced in April.

 Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, says he provided the president with information that the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was impeding investigations that could benefit Trump politically. Within weeks, she was recalled from her post. In an interview with The New York Times, Giuliani portrayed himself as directly involved in the effort to oust Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, and he provided...

Newly released documents show Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was in contact with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the months before the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was abruptly recalled. The State Department released the documents Friday to the group American Oversight in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. They show that Pompeo talked with Giuliani on...

Under Secretary of State David Hale defended former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch during Wednesday’s impeachment hearing, calling her an “exceptional officer doing exceptional work.” He testified that President Donald Trump’s tweets targeting the diplomat were “wrong.”

Under Secretary of State David Hale defended former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch during Wednesday’s impeachment hearing, calling her an “exceptional officer doing exceptional work.” He testified that President Donald Trump’s tweets targeting the diplomat were “wrong.”

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, an Army officer at the National Security Council, kicked off the third public hearing in House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry by testifying about his “duty” to report concerns over what he called an improper “demand” by President Donald Trump during a July phone call with Ukraine’s new president to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his...

The phone call State Department official David Holmes overheard between President Donald Trump and Ambassador Gordon Sondland lasted just two minutes. But it won’t be easily forgotten. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” Holmes told Trump impeachment investigators, “someone calling the President from a mobile phone at a restaurant, and then having a conversation of this level of candor, colorful...

House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff interrupted the impeachment hearing Friday morning to give the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine a chance to answer President Donald Trump’s real-time attacks on her on Twitter. Schiff took over the questioning to read aloud Trump’s broadside against the former ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, as she was testifying. “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad,” Trump tweeted...

Former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch asked whether it was necessary for President Donald Trump to smear her reputation, following questioning from Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio.

President Donald Trump took questions from the media this afternoon after he tweeted about former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine  Marie Yovanovitch during her testimony in front of the House Intelligence Committee

President Donald Trump took questions from the media this afternoon after he tweeted about former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine  Marie Yovanovitch during her testimony in front of the House Intelligence Committee

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., suggests in questions to former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch that President Donald Trump removed her from her diplomatic post so that he could appoint someone more sympathetic to his foreign policy agenda, like a “top donor to his inauguration.”