.@RepAdamSchiff opens day 2 of impeachment hearings: "Ambassador Yovanovitch was serving our nation's interests in fighting corruption in Ukraine, but she was considered an obstacle to the furtherance of the President's personal and political agenda, for that she was smeared"
For the second time in his opening remarks during impeachment hearings, @DevinNunes references Democrats supposedly wanting to get "nude photos" of Trump.
"Gentleman is not recognized"
"Gentleman is not recognized"
"Gentleman is not recognized"
"Gentleman is not recognized"
- @RepAdamSchiff shuts down multiple GOP attempts to disrupt the impeachment hearing
"Gentleman is not recognized"
"Gentleman is not recognized"
"Gentleman is not recognized"
- @RepAdamSchiff shuts down multiple GOP attempts to disrupt the impeachment hearing
.@RepAdamSchiff says he's grateful Trump released the call record, but then he points out all the other information and testimony that Trump is withholding from the inquiry (in the past Schiff has said that is evidence of Trump's attempts to obstruct justice).
Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch on the Trump-Giuliani smear campaign against her: "Our Ukraine policy has been thrown into disarray, and shady interests the world over have learned how little it takes to remove an American Ambassador who does not give them what they want."
Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch said she was "shocked and devastated" to see the readout of the call between Trump and Ukraine where he attacked her. "Even now words fail me."
Background on her firing after refusing to do Trump's dirty work: shareblue.com/marie-yovanovi…
Background on her firing after refusing to do Trump's dirty work: shareblue.com/marie-yovanovi…
Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch said she felt "threatened" after reading the transcript of Trump saying she would "go through some things" in his phone call with Ukraine.
Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch responds in real-time to Trump's tweets today attacking her, saying everywhere she went things "turned bad": "I don't think I have such powers."
During a break in the impeachment hearing, @RepLeeZeldin complains that Democrats "cherry picked" Trump's tweet about the ambassador. He adds: Democrats "wanted to get her to cry" for the cameras.
Fox News' Chris Wallace discusses the problem Republicans face for defending how Trump purged the ambassador: "If the Republicans' argument is the president has the right to remove an ambassador .... if that's the best they can do, I think they're in some trouble here."
.@RepAdamSchiff points out that the newly released White House transcript doesn't show Trump talking about Ukraine corruption with the president, even though the readout from the administration to the world said he did so.
.@RepMikeTurner asks Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch a complex question about ambassador responsibilities, then won't let her give a complete answer. When @RepAdamSchiff rules that she must be allowed to respond, Turner angrily says, "Not on my time, you're done."
The entire impeachment inquiry hearing room laughs after @RepMikeQuigley ridicules Republicans for their attempts to say Ambassador Yovanovitch didn't suffer after Trump smeared her out of a job. "It's not the end of a Hallmark movie, it's the end of a really bad reality TV show"
.@RepSwalwell brings up Trump's "disgusting tweet" against the Ambassador from this morning, then he asks her:
"If your country asks you again to fight corruption, will you still do that, despite the smears?"
"Yes."
"If your country asks you again to fight corruption, will you still do that, despite the smears?"
"Yes."
After @RepAdamSchiff details the Trump plot to remove Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch by "praising the corrupt" and attacking "the just," he concludes "there is no camouflaging that corrupt intent." The room explodes in applause and support.
