'These ambassadors were upset that the president somehow was going around them,' Nunes told Fox News. 'Well, tough. Tough.'
Throughout the week, three officials testified before Congress in the first round of public impeachment hearings. State Department official George Kent and top U.S. Ukraine diplomat Bill Taylor testified on Wednesday and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch appeared on Friday.
"The president had every right, as a matter of fact, Congress actually stipulates that we can't be giving money to corrupt countries," Nunes said on Sunday."These ambassadors were upset that the president somehow was going around them. Well, tough. Tough." "We kept coming out, saying look we understand there's a policy disagreement, people in the State Department didn't like that the president had a special envoy, they didn't like that the EU investor was going over to Ukraine, they didn't like that Rudy Giuliani was investigating what was happening in Ukraine, but tough luck," the congressman continued."The president gets to make those calls.
"It's like a cult down there and you've got all these media freaks that are sitting just a hundred feet outside, waiting for every word," he concluded.on Friday, she told the House Intelligence Committee that Trump and Giuliani had been attempting to smear her since 2018 after she declined to allow the president's personal lawyer to utilize the U.S. embassy to obtain dirt on Biden.
Congressman Devin Nunes on Sunday dismissed government officials' concerns over Rudy Giuliani's foreign policy in Ukraine.
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