What Went Down During Marie Yovanovitch’s Testimony

Then again, Rick, those attacks against Mueller didn’t exactly hurt Trump. If anything, they may have helped him.

It seems to me that Trump did about the worst thing he could have done for himself by tweeting an attack on Yovanovitch in the middle of the hearing. Reminds me of all the advice he got to not attack Mueller… only to attack Mueller, over and over and over and over.

Yovanovitch was asked about the unsubstantiated allegation that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election. Goldman highlights that Putin raised the conspiracy theory involving Ukraine several years ago. Yovanovitch says that’s “classic” behavior for a former intelligence officer like Putin — trying to offer an alternative narrative that doesn’t implicate his country.