Former national security adviser ‘cautioned diplomat about Giuliani and Ukraine’

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>A State Department foreign service officer will tell impeachment investigators former national security adviser John Bolton cautioned him that Rudy Giuliani &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;was a key voice with the president on Ukraine”&comma; which could complicate US goals in the Eastern European country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The testimony from Christopher Anderson makes clear administration officials were concerned about Mr Giuliani’s back-channel involvement in Ukraine policy&comma; and his push for investigations of Democrats&comma; even before the July 25 phone call between President Donald Trump and his Ukraine counterpart at the centre of the House impeachment inquiry&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Anderson will describe a June meeting in which he said Mr Bolton expressed support for the administration’s goals of strengthening energy co-operation between the US and Ukraine and getting new Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy to undertake anti-corruption reforms&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;However&comma; he cautioned that Mr Giuliani was a key voice with the president on Ukraine which could be an obstacle to increased White House engagement&comma;” Mr Anderson will say&comma; according to a copy of his prepared remarks obtained by The Associated Press&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Giuliani is Mr Trump’s personal lawyer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another foreign service officer set to give evidence&comma; Catherine Croft&comma; will say that during her time at the National Security Council &lpar;NSC&rpar;&comma; she received multiple phone calls from lobbyist Robert Livingston telling her that the then ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch should be fired&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He characterised Ambassador Yovanovitch as an &OpenCurlyQuote;Obama holdover’ and associated with George Soros&period; It was not clear to me at the time – or now – at whose direction or at whose expense Mr Livingston was seeking the removal of Ambassador Yovanovitch&comma;” she will say&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Their testimony follows that of Alexander Vindman&comma; an army officer with the National Security Council who said that he twice raised concerns over the administration’s push to have Ukraine investigate Democrats and Joe Biden&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Vindman&comma; a lieutenant colonel who served in Iraq and later as a diplomat&comma; was the first official to testify who actually heard Mr Trump’s July 25 call with Mr Zelenskiy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He reported his concerns to the NSC’s lead counsel&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;143142" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-143142" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-143142" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;10&sol;F9BBC398-2EB9-416D-BBD1-91D9BF1DE1FC&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"338" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-143142" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff arrives at the Capitol to oversee depositions in the impeachment inquiry today&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Mr Vindman also told investigators that he tried to change the White House’s rough transcript of the call by filling in at least one of the omitted words&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Burisma”&comma; a reference to the company linked to Mr Biden and his son&comma; according to people familiar with his testimony&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But Mr Vindman was unsuccessful&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His concerns&comma; though&comma; were far bigger than the transcript&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And politicians said his failed effort to edit it did not significantly change their understanding of what transpired during Mr Trump’s call that sparked the impeachment inquiry&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Vindman’s arrival in military blue&comma; with medals&comma; created a striking image at the Capitol as the impeachment inquiry reached deeper into the White House&period; He testified for more than 10 hours&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was concerned by the call&comma;” Mr Vindman said&comma; according to prepared remarks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads3--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a US citizen&comma; and I was worried about the implications for the US government’s support of Ukraine&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>He was issued a subpoena to appear&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The testimony came the day after Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House would vote on a resolution to set rules for public hearings and a possible vote on articles of impeachment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Thursday’s vote would be the first on the impeachment inquiry and aims to nullify complaints from Mr Trump and his allies that the process is illegitimate and unfair&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads4--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said the resolution merely &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;confirms that House Democrats’ impeachment has been an illegitimate sham from the start as it lacked any proper authorisation by a House vote”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e3ae476ee69">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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