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89 Yovanovitch Hearing Tr. at 31-32.

90 Yovanovitch Dep. Tr. at 22.

91 Yovanovitch Hearing Tr. at 21-22.

92 Yovanovitch Dep. Tr. at 129.

93 Id. at 139.

94 Yovanovitch Hearing Tr. at 28.

95 Sondland Hearing Tr. at 21.

96 Yovanovitch Hearing Tr. at 131-132.

97 Hale Dep. Tr. at 16-17, 112-113; Yovanovitch Hearing Tr. at 21.

98 Cooper-Hale Hearing Tr. at 63 ("I only met her when I took this job, but immediately I understood that we had an exceptional officer doing exceptional work at a very critical embassy in Kyiv. And during my visits to Kyiv, I was very impressed by 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.").

99 Id. at 64.

100 Biography of Marie L. Yovanovitch, Department of State (online at https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/261588.htm).

101 McKinley Transcribed Interview Tr. at 37.

102 Reeker Dep. Tr. at 26.

103 Kent Dep. Tr. at 188-189.

104 Yovanovitch Hearing Tr. at 18-19.

105 Id.

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

107 Holmes Dep. Tr. at 142.

108 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).

109 22 U.S.C. § 3941.

110 Yovanovitch Hearing Tr. at 110-111.

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.

112 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 78-79.