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Another ambassador without cause based on allegation thaes the state department itself knew to be false? >> no. >> 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 the september i believe. >> and prior to reading that call record, were you a aware that president trump had specifically made reference to you in that call? >> no. >> what was your reaction to learning that? >> ...

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 witnesses' willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing? >> well, it's very intimidating. >> designed to intimidate, is it not? >> i can't 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. mr. goldman. >> ambassador yovanovitch, yo...

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 to conduct ukraine policy. if there were any doubt about why she was pushed out, i think the call record eliminates that doubt. it is apparent from that call record that the president associated his bias in favor of this corrupt prosecutor lutzenko, with a need to push out yovanovitch. with the need to move forward with the investigations he wanted of his political rival. that a u.s. ambassador would be so shamelessly smeared ...

The united states recalling another ambassador without cause based on allegations that the state department itself knew to be false? >> no. >> 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 reacti...

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 real-time is attacking you. what effect do you think that has on other witnesses willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing? >> it's very intimidating. >> it's designed to intimidate, is it not? >> i mean, i can't 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....