Impeachment witness Kent testifies Yovanovitch was asked to stay on before removal from Ukraine post

State Department official George Kent testifies in questioning by Indiana Congressman Andre Carson at the first public impeachment inquiry hearing of the House Select Intelligence Committee that he and superiors including under Secretary of State David Hale asked Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch to stay on post despite someone in Ukraine are probably disliked her efforts to help the government root out corruption, Kent adding one cannot promote principled anticorruption action without pissing off corrupt people.
State Department official George Kent testifies in questioning by Indiana Congressman Andre Carson at the first public impeachment inquiry hearing of the House Select Intelligence Committee that he and superiors including under Secretary of State David Hale asked Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch to stay on post despite someone in Ukraine are probably disliked her efforts to help the government root out corruption, Kent adding one cannot promote principled anticorruption action without pissing off corrupt people.
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