Former Ambassador to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch took the stand Friday to tell the House Intelligence Committee about being shoved out of her posting after Rudy Giuliani and his cronies concocted a successful smear campaign against her.

In a compelling and personal account, she expressed how it felt to lose her job and the confidence of the President due to a backchannel effort. She also reacted to President Donald Trump’s tweets criticizing her in real time.

Here are the biggest moments from the second day of public impeachment hearings:

Former ambassador to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch calmly dismantled Republican staff attorney Steve Castor’s line of questioning centered on the idea that Ukrainian officials were out to get then-candidate Donald Trump during the second half of her Friday hearing.

Former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch gave a moving defense of State Department officials in her impeachment testimony Friday, notably citing the 2012 Benghazi attacks that Republicans made so much hay of when in the House majority.

The Indiana Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily suspended three circuit judges after they found themselves involved in a drunken brawl and shooting outside an Indianapolis White Castle in May.

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham claimed Friday morning that President Donald Trump would tune out of former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch’s hearing after Intel Ranking Member Devin Nunes’ (R-CA) conspiracy theory-laden opening statement.

In her opening statement, former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch expressed her “amazement” that corrupt foreign interests found a “willing partner” in Americans to achieve her ouster.

President Donald Trump sent out a tweet-storm Thursday night quoting a Ukrainian official who denied that Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland linked the withheld military aid to a phony investigation into the Bidens.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) conceded to other top Democrats in a meeting this week that public opinion on President Donald Trump is so baked in, it may be hard to sway people’s opinion with the impeachment inquiry — but that they must go ahead and do it anyway.

Eagle-eyed White House TV crews spotted President Donald Trump talking excitedly with Attorney General William Barr and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone in the Oval Office Thursday evening when he should have been leaving for Louisiana.

President Donald Trump made a final full-court press Thursday night in an attempt to push Republican challenger Eddie Rispone over the top in the Louisiana gubernatorial runoff this Saturday.