Good evening.

Tonight for the first time two key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry, Toll Lawmakers.

What way Toll Lawmakers we have now have the transcripts of their depositions before

the three House impeachment committees.

These are two longstanding State Department professionals with seven decades of experience

between them.

Michael McKinley, former senior adviser to Secretary of State Pompeo and Marie Yavanovich, former

ambassador to Ukraine.

She was forced out of her post.

She resigned from the Foreign Service and gave two reasons.

Because what they said is so significant and at times mysterious, we're going to do

something a little bit different tonight and read some of the most important passages

were for word.

And we'll try to link up the moments that really build a narrative that, according to

these two officials, illustrate a State Department in Washington operating across purposes

from diplomats around the world.

And a White House that was undermining those diplomats for purposes that seemed to

have more to do with President Trump's political interests than U.S. national security.

The start with the sworn statements of the former senior adviser to Secretary of State Pompeo

Ambassador Michael McKinley.

Quote, the timing of my resignation he testified was the result of two overriding concerns.

The failure in my view of the State Department to offer support to foreign employees caught

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