Former U.S. Ambassador To Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch

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🗓️ 15 March 2022

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Summary

Yovanovitch was relieved of her post following a smear campaign orchestrated by Trump lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. She also testified at Trump's first impeachment. Her new memoir is 'Lessons from the Edge.'

Also, Maureen Corrigan reviews a new collection of the novels of esteemed YA author Virginia Hamilton.

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0:00.0	This is fresh air, I'm Terry Gross.
0:02.7	My guest, Marie Ivanovich, was one of the star witnesses of Trump's first impeachment,
0:07.7	the one that revolved around his dealings with Ukraine.
0:10.8	As you may remember, she was the US ambassador to Ukraine, who Trump fired after a smear campaign
0:16.8	that Rudy Giuliani played a major role in.
0:19.7	Trump saw her as disloyal.
0:21.9	She was fired soon after she declined to pledge her loyalty to Trump.
0:27.2	When Trump's infamous call with Ukrainian President Filotomir Zelensky, or as Trump described
0:32.4	it his perfect phone call, Zelensky asked Trump for weapons to help fight the Russians
0:37.2	who had invaded Crimea and the region in Ukraine known as the Donbass.
0:42.2	Trump responded by requesting a favor to dig up dirt in Ukraine on Joe Biden and his
0:47.4	son Hunter.
0:48.6	In that same call, Trump also described Ambassador Ivanovich as bad news and said she was
0:54.8	going to go through some things.
0:57.5	Ivanovich was appointed ambassador to Ukraine by President Obama in May 2016, a couple of
1:02.9	years after Russia invaded Crimea.
1:05.8	She was recalled to Washington in April 2019, just a few days after Zelensky's election.
1:11.8	She was terminated as Ambassador the following month.
1:15.0	She's now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a non-resident
1:19.6	fellow at Georgetown University.
1:22.1	She's written a new memoir called Lessons From the Edge.
1:27.2	Ambassador Ivanovich, welcome to Fresh Air.
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