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How did that go? he goes onto say later in the tweet, its a u.s. presidents absolute right to appoint ambassadors. and now the president in realtime is attacking you. what effect do you think that has on other witness willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing? >> well, its very intimidating. >> intimidating. schiff during a break in the hearing bluntly calling the presidents attack witness intimidation. >> what we saw today is witness intimidation in realtime by the president of the unit...

So its happened many times and i think even when vice president biden threatened to withhold aid and bragged about it when he returned to washington. >> that was nothing about investigating a political rival. >> sure, i mean, i think -- >> you know that. >> of course the eu did. so then the question is should the vice president, you know, receive a pass on hunter biden just because hes running for president doesnt mean he should necessarily have a pass. >> but he didnt do anything wrong. im tryi...

Point. even if this were a criminal trial or civil trial, you wouldnt have to have that direct evidence because theres more than enough circumstantial evidence to infer the presidents intent. >> i want to listen to what was really a moment in that hearing yesterday when chairman schiff read president trumps tweet to ambassador yovanovitch as he was tweeting during the hearing, and watch her reaction. >> and now the president in real time is attacking you. what effect do you think that has on oth...

That came in a private talk with diplomats which someone recorded and gave to the "l.a. times." >> who is the person who gave the whistleblower the information? thats close to a spy. do you know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart, right? with spies. we used to handle it a little differently than we do now. >> the president has also been openly accused of threatening a witness. his former attorney michael cohenier this year, cohen postponed his testimony in the house. his lawye...

Attacking you on twitter. what effect do you think that has on other witness willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing. >> its very intimidating. >> so you believe these words can be intimidating? >> i dont think so at all. >> we have learned significant new information perfect this closed-door testimony and impeachment inquiry. for the first time a witness says he personally heard president trump demand ukraine investigating the bidens. >> and on top of that the state department officia...

Willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing? >> well, its very intimidating. >> its designed to intimidate, is it not? >> i mean i cant 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. >> and in the midst of her testimony, the intel chairman, you know, read a tweet of the president who essentially said in realtime to her testimony that ...

Ambassador marie yovanovitchs public appearance. even some republicans were taken back. get, everywhere marie yovanovitch went turned bad the president wrote. he added that ukrainian president had spoken about him. yovanovitch was told about the tweet moments later. >> what effect do you think that has on other witnesses willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing? >> well, its very intimidating. >> its designed to intimidate, is it not? i mean, i cant speak to what the president is trying...

Some of the republicans wouldnt even answer questions about it. i had one lawmaker on the committee, john rat cliff, i stride asking him about it he faked a phone call to avoid talking to me about this. it shows how difficult a spot republicans are in. >> the president tweeted about her in the midst of the stim saying in part that everywhere she turned, everywhere she went turned bad. house intel committee chairman adam schiff broke the news during the hearing. listen to that moment. >> and now ...

Willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing? >> well, its very intimidating. >> its designed to intimidate, is it not? >> i mean, i cant 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. >> alex marquardt has more on ambassador yovanovitchs hearing. >> our ukraine policy has been thrown into disarray and shady interests the world over h...

The president, ukraine or our system or generally? heres somebody who -- shes not the victim of this ukraine scheme, but she was somebody harmed by trump. there was wrongdoing here towards here. at least that was her allegation. it was very compelling. you saw somebody -- i think she was very sympathetic. secondly, i think this whole business you mentioned earlier about the president tweeting, intimidating her, i really think that was a very -- it crystallized what happened, and i think it was a...