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 what she was doing there, to the extent that I asked her if she'd be willing to stay, if that was a possibility, because we had a gap coming up.” Cooper-Hale Hearing Tr. at 63.

Cooper-Hale Hearing Tr. at 64.

Biography of Marie L. Yovanovitch, Department of State (online at https://20092017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/261588.htm).

McKinley Transcribed Interview Tr. at 37.

Reeker Dep. Tr. at 26.

Kent Dep. Tr. at 188-189.

Yovanovitch Hearing Tr. at 18-19.

Yovanovitch Hearing Tr. at 18-19.

Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 18-19, 45-46.

Holmes Dep. Tr. at 142.

What “Corruption” Means in the Impeachment Hearings, New Yorker (Nov. 16, 2019) (online at www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-corruption-of-the-word-corruption-and-so-much-else-amid-the-impeachment-hearings).

22 U.S.C. § 3941.

Yovanovitch Hearing Tr. at 110-111.

Ambassador Yovanovitch said: “Although then and now I have always understood that I served at the pleasure of the President, I still find it difficult to comprehend that foreign and private interests were able to undermine U.S. interests in this way. Individuals who apparently felt stymied by our efforts to promote stated U.S. policy against corruption, that is, to do our mission, were able to successfully conduct a campaign of disinformation against a sitting ambassador using unofficial back channels. As various witnesses have recounted, they shared baseless allegations with the President and convinced him to remove his ambassador despite the fact that the State Department fully understood that the allegations were false and the sources highly suspect.” Yovanovitch Hearing Tr. at 22.

Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 78-79.

Yovanovitch Dep. Tr. at 313-314.

Yovanovitch Hearing Tr. at 22.

Kent-Taylor Hearing Tr. at 25.

Kent. Dep. Tr. at 131-132.

Kent-Taylor Hearing Tr. at 31-32.

Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky Unseats Incumbent in Ukraine’s Presidential Election, Exit Polls Show, Washington Post (Apr. 21, 2019) (online at www.washingtonpost.com/world/as-ukraine-votes-in-presidential-runoff-a-comedian-looks-to-unseat-the-incumbent/2019/04/21/b7d69a38-603f-11e9-bf24db4b9fb62aa2_story.html).

Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky Unseats Incumbent in Ukraine’s Presidential Election, Exit Polls Show, The Washington Post (Apr. 21, 2019) (online at www.washingtonpost.com/world/as-ukraine-votes-in-presidential-runoff-a-comedian-looks-to-unseat-the-incumbent/2019/04/21/b7d69a38-603f-11e9-bf24db4b9fb62aa2_story.html).

The White House, Memorandum of Telephone Conversation (Apr. 21, 2019) (online at https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6550349/First-Trump-Ukraine-Call.pdf).

The White House, Memorandum of Telephone Conversation (Apr. 21, 2019) (online at https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6550349/First-Trump-Ukraine-Call.pdf).