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To help us understand what really took place? >> what if he tries to plead the fifth? is he allowed to plead the fifth in front of congress? >> that -- that train has left the station. ambassador sondland, the american people have a right to know exactly what took place. you started with that testimony. you amended it. and i -- i still believe he has the opportunity to straighten out this given the clear, consistent testimony of almost everyone else who's testified. you know, you take the president's call record, his original words in the whistle-blower's complaint. these witnesses have spoken...

Argued it is freedom of speech. here is how it all played out. >> the president implicitly threatened you, in that call record, and now the president realtime is attacking you. what effect do you you think that has on other witnesses' willingness to come forward and expose wrong doing? >> well, it's very intimidating. >> designed to intimidate, is it not? >> i mean i can't speak to what the president was 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. >> witness intimidati...

President decided to weigh in in the middle of her public testimony the president tweeted this, everywhere marie yovanovitch went turned bad. she started off in smaomalia, h did that go. it is a u.s. president's absolute right to appoint ambassadors. intelligence committee chair adam schiff called it witness intimidation, but president trump argued that it was freedom of speech. here's how it all played out. >> 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...

While she's in the middle of testifying. i mean, you cannot make this up. >> as we sit here testifying the president is attacking you on twitter, and i'd like to give you a chance to respond. i'll read part of one of his tweets. "everywhere yovanovitch went turned bad. she started off in somalia, how did that go?" ambassador, you showed 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 th...

>> 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 real time 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. >> it's designed to intimidate, is it not? >> i -- i mean, i can't speak to what the president is trying to do. but i think the effe...