>> that smear campaign orchestrated by the irregular channel was uk sesful in removing a u.s. ambassador. >> the president has mischaracterized what happened on the july 25th call with the president of ukraine claiming it was president zelenski who first criticized ambassador yovanovitch during the conversation. >> even if you listen to the very good conversation i had, the very, very good, congenial conversation with the new president of ukraine, she had some things that were not flattering to say about her. and that came out of the blue. >> but that's not true. in the rough transcript which was released by the white house, it's the president who brought it up first saying 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 wanted to let you know that. asked by house investigators if she felt threatened, yovanovitch responded yes. >> i've heard bad things about her for a long period of time. not good.