witness intimidation. right now, the testimony continuing with a close d door deposition by an american embassy official who overheard the president talking with the u.s. ambassador to the eu about investigations mr. trump wanted from ukraine. and amid all of the drama, the president s long time associate on friend, roger stone, has been found guilty on all seven counting include iing telling l to congress that protected mr. trump. we ll get to that, but first, some details of today s dramatic testimony by the ousted u.s. ambassador to ukraine. jessica schneider is working the story for us. it was very, very powerful. it was, wolf, and yovanovitch recounted and she said she was vilified by rudy giuliani and his associates and even after her ouster as ambassador to ukraine, she said she felt threatened when she learned the details of the president s july
it is just the latest in the rapid succession of closed door and public testimony. there s more closed door testimony tomorrow then of course next week. there are those eight witnesses testifying in public. yeah, it s going to be a very, very significant, indeed. perhaps totally critical. thanks very much. president trump meanwhile is citing freedom of speech. as democrats him of witness intimidation with his twitter attack on the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine while she was testifying. let s go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. some of the president s allies may think he made a significant mistake. that s right. a clearly frustrated president trump defended his tweet aimed at yovanovitch argued he had the right to free speech as much anybody else. he got testy on whether his tweet amounted to witness intimidation or tampering. two trump campaign sources i talked to today sharply
allegations he spread about me. yovanovitch then went point by point to rebut the allegations against her. i want to reiterate first that the allegation that i dissim nated a do not prosecute list was a fabrication. i did not tell mr. lu the tsenko or anyone who they should or officials that president trump s orders should be ignored because he was going to be impeached or for any other reason. i did not and would not say such a thing. the obama administration did not ask me to help the clinton campaign or harm the trump campaign. was the allegation that you were bad mouthing president trump true? no. what i can say is that mr. giuliani should have known those claims were suspect. coming as they reportedly did from individuals with question bable motives and with reason to
is what does sondland say, the guy we know is in frequent contact directly with the president. we should keep in mind the timing of this. this call that sondland made to the president happened right after president trump had a conversation with president zelensky. the day after, in which he specified that he was interested in investigating hunter biden. he was interested in joe biden, in this conspiracy theory and crowd strike and the 2016 election. the president was following up on something he d asked for in that phone call and this is the, are they doing it conversation and so the context around that is critical. hold on one second. manu is up on capitol hill. i understand you have new information on what this u.s. embassy official has been saying under oath to these committee members. yeah and i actually have obtained the opening statement from this aide of bill taylor
warned the rant could prompt repercussions including a new article of impeachment. some of us here take witness intimidation very, very seriously. yovanovitch recounted how she s felt threatened before. a person who saw me reading the transcript said the color drained my face. i think i even had a physical reaction. especially after the release of the july 25th phone call transcript between president trump and zelensky. president trump says the former ambassador from the united states, the woman, was bad news. and the people she was dealing with in the ukraine were bad news. so i just want to let you know. what was your reaction when you heard the president of the united states refer to you as bad news? i couldn t believe it. again, shocked. appalled. devastated. that the president of the united states would talk about any