former ambassador of ukraine marie marie yovanovitch. and in the process the president may have created another article of impeachment against the president. ambassador yovanovitch, as we sit here testifying the president is attacking you on twitter. and i d like to give you a chance to respond. i ll read part of one of his tweets. everywhere marie yovanovitch went turned bad. she started off in somalia, how did that go? he goes onto say later in the tweet it s a u.s. president s absolute right to appoint ambassadors. first of all, ambassador yovanovitch, the senate has a chance to confirm or deny an ambassador, do they not? yes, advise and consent. the president implicitly threatened you in that call record. and now the president in realtime is attacking you.
call with him. it is a u.s. president s absolute right to appoint ambassadors. not long after that, and in real time, intelligence committee chairman adam schiff decided to let yovanovitch respond. as we sit here testifying, the president is attacking you on twitter. and i would like to give you a chance to respond. i ll read part of one of his tweets. everywhere marie yovanovitch went turned bad. she started off in somalia, how did that go? he goes on to say, later in the tweet, a u.s. president s absolute right to appoint ambassadors. first of all, ambassador yovanovitch, the senate he s a chance to confirm or deny an ambassador, do they not? yes, advise and consent. would you like to respond to the president s attack that everywhere you went turned bad?
tweet is it s the u.s. president s absolute right to appoint ambassadors. fi first of all the senate has a chance to confirm or deny an ba ambassador, do they not? yes, advise and consent. and now the president in real time is attacking you. what effect do you think that has on other witness s willingness to come forward and expose wrong doing? well, it s very intimidating. designed to intimidate, is it not? i mean i can t speak to what the president is trying to do. but i think the effect is to be intimidating. well, i want to let you know, ambassador, that some of us here take witness intimidation very, very seriously.
went turned bad. she started off in somalia. how did that go? he goes on to say later in the tweet, it is a u.s. president s absolute right to appoint ambassadors. first of all, ambassador yovanovitch, the senate has a chance to confirm or deny the ambassador, do they snnot? yes, advise and consent. would you like to acknowledge the president s contention that everywhere you went turned bad? i don t think i have such powers. not in mogadishu and somalia or other places. i actually think where i served over the years, i and others have demonstrably made things better for the u.s. as well as for the countries that i ve served in. ukraine, for example, where there are huge challenges,
if i could follow up on that question. ambassador yovanovitch, as we sit here testifying the president is attacking you on twitter and i would like to give you a chance to respond. i ll read part of one of his tweets. everywhere marie yovanovitch went turned bad. she started off in somalia. how did that go? he goes on to say later in the tweet u.s. president s absolute right to appoint ambassadors. first of all, ambassador yovanovitch, the senate has a chance to confirm or deny an ambassador, do they not? yes, advise and consent. would you like to respond to the president s attack that everywhere you went turned bad? well, i mean i don t think i have such powers not in somalia and other places. i actually think that where