Key takeaways from Trump impeachment pages

House investigators revealed their first report card to US President Donald Trump at a closed impeachment hearing Monday to provide new details about the case at the center of the investigation.

On hundreds of pages, Ukrainian ousted US ambassador Mary Yovanovitch and Chief Adviser of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Michael McKinley, and Trump's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy Expressed concern over the administration's actions against Ukraine, including the call of the Democrats plan to release more report cards in the future.

Here's everything from the hearing:

Trying to hurt me & # 39;

Yovanović told investigators that in December 2018 he learned that Rudy Giuliani was involved in Ukraine. The Ambassador knew that the president's private lawyer was interested in investigating the holding companies Burissa and Joe Bidden, but continued "

In the months that followed, she began to understand the work of Yuriy Lutsenko, then Ukrainian Attorney General, and Juliani's work outside the official diplomatic channel.

The core of Juliani's participation seems to have centered around his work with two entrepreneurs, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who were arrested and charged with contributing to an improper US campaign last month. They wanted to expand their energy business in Ukraine.

She testified that Juliani and Lu Chenko informed a Ukrainian official that "we plan to do everything, including me."

She came to understand that "need a better line" to help businessmen understand.

She said Lutsenko "is thinking to hurt me in America," and "I could not imagine what it was."

Go big or go home & # 39;

Yovanovic said she raised concerns about the Trump administration's actions in Ukraine and Gordon Sondland, the EU ambassador to the US press. In response, she encouraged her to tweet support for Trump on social media.

"He's & # 39; You know, you have to go loud or go home," he said. "You must tweet from there to support the president."

As a non-party ambassador she advised, "I didn't see how I could do it."

At the time, some conservatives said that Yovanovitch was saving Trump in Ukraine, and she denied it. "The claim is false," he testified.

She was sent home.

Previous Trump Participation?

The Ambassador said that Trump might have been involved in a phone call with Giuliani, Lutsenko and others in January 2018. If true, it will connect Trump directly with Juliani's work than previously understood.

Yovanovic said the State Department raised concerns about these and other actions. She asked if someone in the state tried to stop the effort. "I don't think so. I don't think they can do that."

A career diplomat said he is not afraid of safety "until now." But she was shocked by the administration's approach to Ukraine, and was surprised by what she learned from Trump's telephone record with Zelensky, who sparked an impeachment investigation.

In that call, Trump called Yovanovitch "bad news," and said, "I'm going through some work."

Without support & # 39; bullying & # 39;

Pompeo's former aide, McKinley, detailed the frustration of Yovanovitch's complaints and concerns about the possible impact on the department's morale. He said the silence of the top leaders was "mysterious and embarrassing."

So McKinley forced this department to issue a statement in support of Yovanovitch.

Several other senior officials agreed that it should be done, but eventually Pompeo told reporters that he had decided not to issue a statement. McKinley said the department had been told that "I don't want to draw too much attention to her."

McKinley later talked with Yonovanovitch who. She testified that she communicated the concerns of another State Department official, George Kent, who was worried about the department's "bullying."

McKinley testified that the Secretary-General did not respond at all when he discussed this issue with Pompeo.

A political statement

McKinley resigned amid fears of politicization of the State Department. He left Pompeo because of concerns about the lack of support for the staff, but Yovanovic did not name himself.

"With the failure to see new information about our mission to procure negative political information for domestic purposes, especially in buildings that don't support professional executives at the time of the effort, I said that the combination was quite good for lawmakers McKinley .

McKinley said the State Department had never seen such an effort to dig out political opponents.

"If I underline in foreign service and elsewhere in the world after 37 years and work in Washington 10 years ago and solve a lot of controversial issues, I have never seen it," he said.

Source: AP