this is deja vu news live from berlin the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine says she felt threatened by president trump. like. a threat. to do you. feel threatened. her you have out of it gives testimony during the 2nd day of public hearings in the trump impeachment inquiry we'll take you to capitol hill also coming up. every stone storm strike large parts of europe leaving hundreds of thousands of people without electricity. plus. it's just.

that meteoric and profitable rise of baby shark. i want him good kraft good to have you with us it was an emotional day on capitol hill in washington with the impeachment increase public testimony of memory of it the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine was abruptly removed from her post in key of she says she's the victim of a smear campaign from trump's personal lawyer rudolph giuliani says. you know out of it said she felt threatened after finding out that president trump had denounced her in a phone call with the ukrainian president here's some of what she had to say what

did you think when president trump told president selenski and you read it that you were going to go through something so i didn't know what to think but i was very concerned were you concerned about. she's going to go through some things it didn't sound good sounded like. a threat. did you feel threatened. i did with the testimony ongoing trump posted a tweet criticizing about of edges diplomatic career that tweet was then shown in the congressional hearing room the tweet read everywhere marie of out of it went turn bad she started off in somalia how did that go then ukraine the new president spoke unfavorably about her in my 2nd phone call with him it's a u.s. president absolute right to appoint ambassadors now it's worth noting that both

trumps defenders and just tractors praised about a bitch for her work here's the exchange between the intelligence committee chairman and your vantage about the tweet and now the president real time is attacking. what effect do you think that has on the other witnesses willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing. it's very intimidating to dine 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. let's bring in my do you have your colleague thomas turn now for more about what just happened today so that that tweet tell us about that does that have implications for this impeachment inquiry well it's on heard of i mean it's these days unusual in the hearings and like this to have a live tweet but in

a trump world of course it becomes more and more usual nancy pelosi the speaker of the house the democrats came out to say in a press conference afterwards that. not pointing all talking directly about trump's tweet but speaking about witness intimidation in general and pointing towards that it's of course a crime so whether this will be picked up in the impeachment inquiry later on we will have to see at the latest stage but otherwise what we heard today we. didn't hear anything new and i really evanovich said more or less the same things that she said in the closed door hearing some time ago and as he just underlined the the issue of being felt threatened and the uncomfortable situation of being on the air what he called a smear campaign from trump's personal lawyer to jani rudy giuliani so let's talk about strategy here the democrats strategy is pretty clear they're using these

witnesses to try to show corruption and abuse of power by donald trump what are the republicans trying to do to defend him well it's quite interesting to see they were tripping at a very fine line here today they were not criticizing her had all the met a fact they were actually pointed towards how professional she was they were talking about how. professional civil servants she's been over the years so that was not the strategy they also been saying all along that it's not on usual for governments to ask for favors we hear about this issue about withholding aid. to ukraine military aid and they said well that's what governments do all the time and also the fact that a president can change as it is at any time so they have sort of pointed towards that nothing unusual in what the president had done and as you pointed out nothing new in comparison to what we heard from the closed door testimony but it's new for

a lot of americans a lot of americans hearing this for the 1st time so what can you tell us about public opinion yeah and that's at the end of the day what it's all about it is from the democrats' side their strategy to influence public opinion and of course also from the republicans not to change anything a poll out here on friday was saying that 2 thirds of americans are actually following this and that's huge number. think about what is actually going on in these very sometimes very long hearings very detailed political hearings and the. poll out today saying about 41 percent of americans say that they now are more supportive of impeachment of don't trump but of course we have to bend mind that it's a long way to the elections it's one year from now so at the end of the day there's a long time yet to change their minds all right thomas i'm terrific you very much

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