she also told house investigators that state department officials were hesitant to issue a statement supporting her because they were concerned that the rug would be pulled out from under them by president trump. so one of the reasons why this testimony is so important is because it speaks to a coordinated campaign at the behest of president trump, house democrats allege, as he called into service rudy giuliani, ambassador sondland, rick perry and others to lean on ukrainian officials to dig up dirt manufacturing damaging information about the bidens. the reason this testimony is significant is because president trump always talks about the call. you heard him say that on the south lawn yesterday. he said the call was perfect. house democrats say it's what happened before the call and what happened after the call that is so important to the public case they are building against president trump. marie yovanovitch was one of those people who in the beginning she said she had no