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Get y get you yovanovitch fired. >> now you testified in your opening statement that you had left ukraine by the time of the july 25th call between president trump and president zelensky. when was the first time that you saw the call record for this phone call? >> when it was released publicly at the end of september i believe. >> and prior to reading that call record were you aware that president trump had specifically made reference to you in that call? >> no. >> what was your reaction to learning that? >> i was shocked. absolutely shocked and devastated, frankly. >> what do you mean by deva...

If this president was a pony and he had to be reduced to one trick, that would be his one pony trick. like that's the closest thing he has to a super power. but when president trump tried that standard one trick pony trick today in the middle of marie yovanovitch's testimony it went wrong for him in a couple of important ways. >> ambassador, you've shown the courage to come forward today and testify. notwithstanding the fact you were urged by the white house or state department not to, notwithstanding the fact that as you testified earlier the president implicitly threatened you in that call r...

But when president trump tried that standard one trick pony trick today in the middle of marie yovanovitch's testimony it went wrong for him in a couple of important ways. >> ambassador, you've shown the courage to come forward today and testify. notwithstanding the fact you were urged by the white house or state department not to, notwithstanding the fact that as you testified earlier the president implicitly threatened you in that call record. 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 wrongdo...

Including, you know, on the issue that we're discussing today, of corruption. huge challenges. but they've made a lot of progress since 2014, including in the years that i was there. and i think in part -- the ukranian people get the most credit for that, but a part of that credit goes to the work of the united states and to me as the ambassador in ukraine. >> ambassador, you've shown the courage to come forward today and testify. notwithstanding the fact you were urged by the white house or state department not to, notwithstanding the fact that, s as you testified earlier, the president impli...

Corruption, if anything, her commitment to fighting corruption was part of the reason why she was pushed out. pushing her out made it possible to put in the three amigos two conduct ukraine policy. if there were any doubt why she was pushed out i think the call record eliminates that doubt. is apparent from the that call record that the president associated his bias in favor of his corrupt prosecutor lutsenko with a need to push out yovanovitch, with a need to move forward with the investigations he wanted of his political rival. that u.s. ambassador would be so shamelessly smeared and cast as...