Who is bob livingston

Lobbyist and former Republican U. Bob Livingston leaves after a closed-door meeting with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday, March 21, , in Washington. Bob Livingston of Metairie resigned from Congress amid scandal in , but his behind-the-scenes role in the hottest story on Capitol Hill — the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump — was brought to light with the testimony of a State Department employee this week.

Catherine Croft, a witness giving a behind-closed-doors deposition for the ongoing investigation into the Trump administration's dealings with Ukraine and a July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, was expected to testify that Livingston pushed for the ouster of the American ambassador to Ukraine because of her association with Democrats, according to reports from the New York Times and other national media outlets.

Livingston, 76, represented Louisiana's 1st Congressional district as a Republican from to , when he resigned amid allegations of extramarital affairs, after helping lead the charge on then-President Bill Clinton's infidelities-focused impeachment.

According to Croft's leaked opening testimony , she received several calls from Livingston, who said Yovanovitch should be fired. Livingston was seeking the removal of Ambassador Yovanovitch," Croft was expected to testify. Yovanovitch was fired earlier this year and testified this month that Trump was behind the push to remove her from her post.

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, a Jefferson Republican who represents Livingston's former district, said he wasn't familiar with the details, but he didn't find it unusual that an ambassador would be replaced under a new administration. Read more from the New York Times here. Livingston chaired the bipartisan ethics reform task force, where he was responsible for reshaping the House ethics rules.

He was chosen by his peers to serve as Speaker-designate for the th Congress. Livingston established The Livingston Group in Prior to serving in Congress, Mr. Livingston practiced law in both public and private fields. Robert Livingston, the former Republican congressman turned lobbyist, repeatedly told a foreign service officer assigned to the White House that the American ambassador to Ukraine should be fired because of her association with Democrats, the officer plans to tell impeachment investigators on Wednesday.

The officer, Catherine M. Livingston about the ambassador, Marie L. Yovanovitch, while she was working at the National Security Council from mid to mid She plans to say she informed two other officials — Fiona Hill, then the senior director for Europe and Russia at the council, and George P.

Kent, a Ukraine expert at the State Department — about them at the time. Livingston was seeking the removal of Ambassador Yovanovitch. The direction and expense to oust Ms.

Yovanovitch could very possibly have come directly from the Kremlin.