WATCH: Speaking of fighting corruption in Ukraine, Yovanovitch says it "continues to amaze me that they found Americans willing to partner with them" in orchestrating her removal. "How could our system fail like this?"
Yovanovitch: "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." 
BREAKING: In impeachment hearing, former US Amb. Yovanovitch warns that the US State Dept. and US diplomats are being undermined from within, and the State Dept. leadership is allowing it to happen and not defending US diplomats. nbcnews.com/politics/trump…
WATCH: In impeachment hearing, Yovanovitch expresses grave concerns in the lack of support and defense of staff from US State Dept. leadership, and warns of “real harm” in undermining US diplomats.
In April, White House said that the president expressed commitment to work with Ukraine to "root out corruption” during call with Ukraine’s president.
Newly released memo of the call does not reflect such a discussion. nbcnews.to/356Jd4s
Newly released memo of the call does not reflect such a discussion. nbcnews.to/356Jd4s
Daniel Goldman and Steve Castor: More about the two staff counsels who are questioning witnesses in the public impeachment hearings. nbcnews.to/2q7JZ2i
BREAKING: As Yovanovitch testifies about being undermined from within the US government and feeling threatened by the president, Chairman Schiff pauses the impeachment hearing to read President Trump's tweets attacking Yovanovitch while she was testifying.
Yovanovitch says that she feels intimidated by the president as she testifies in the impeachment hearing.
Schiff asked Yovanovitch how the president’s words might affect other witnesses in the impeachment inquiry.
“It’s very intimidating,” she said.
Schiff told Yovanovitch, “Some of us here take witness intimidation very, very seriously.”
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“It’s very intimidating,” she said.
Schiff told Yovanovitch, “Some of us here take witness intimidation very, very seriously.”
nbcnews.to/2QjCekp
What did you think when you read that Pres. Trump told Pres. Zelenskiy "she's going to go through some things?"
Yovanovitch: "I didn’t know what to think but I was very concerned .. It didn’t sound good. It sounded like a threat."
Did you feel threatened?
Yovanovitch: "I did."
Yovanovitch: "I didn’t know what to think but I was very concerned .. It didn’t sound good. It sounded like a threat."
Did you feel threatened?
Yovanovitch: "I did."
LIVE: @NBCNews Special Report: Marie Yovanovitch testimony continues in impeachment hearing. pscp.tv/w/1YqKDnRVgLNJV
Marie Yovanovitch describes how Ukrainian officials began to ask her if she'd be ousted, and how that affected her ability to do her job.
NEW: White House asserts to @NBCNews that the president's tweet "was not witness intimidation, it was simply the President’s opinion, which he is entitled to."
“It’s very intimidating,” former Amb. Yovanovitch said of president's tweets during the hearing nbcnews.to/2QjCekp
“It’s very intimidating,” former Amb. Yovanovitch said of president's tweets during the hearing nbcnews.to/2QjCekp
WATCH: Yovanovitch says the smear campaign against her has been personally difficult, and she wonders why, if the president simply wanted a different ambassador, he wouldn't have just said he wanted a different ambassador.
