In Washington where Republicans and Democrats are both claiming victory following the second public hearing in President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry.

The witness Friday the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.

During her testimony, Trump went on twitter criticizing the diplomat.

Marie Yovanovitch testified for more than six hours.

CGTN’s Nathan King reports.

Yovanovitch, a career U.S. diplomat who faced bullets in Somalia and fought rampant corruption in Ukraine and was abruptly removed from her post earlier this year, was the third witness in the public impeachment hearing into President Donald Trump.

In compelling testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, Yovanovitch said her removal as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from was due to a smear campaign conducted by the U.S. president’s personal lawyer. Rudy Giuliani was conducting an alternative U.S. foreign policy in Ukraine aimed at opening investigations into the president’s main political rival Joe Biden and his family.

As the hearing Friday played out before millions of people watching on television, the TV reality show president provided a reality show moment attacking the former ambassador in real-time via Twitter as she testified. Democratic lawmakers then relayed those tweets to her.

“I mean, I don’t think I have such powers. Not in Mogadishu, Somalia, not in other places. I actually think that where I’ve served over the years, I and others have demonstrably made things better for the U.S. as well as for the countries that I’ve served in,” Yovanovitch said.

Democrats accused the U.S. president of trying to tamper with a witness via tweet Yovanovitch said she felt threatened.

The president’s Republican supporters continued to reject the proceedings as a witch hunt, emphasizing that U.S ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the president and can be recalled at any time.