The next round of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry is scheduled for Friday, with former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch set to testify. Here are four things to look for:
She is a career diplomat who was abruptly pulled from Kiev last spring after a personal order from President Donald Trump. He made the decision after a months-long public campaign against Yovanovitch, led by his attorney Rudy Giuliani and others in the right-wing media.Yovanovitch testified behind closed doors last month, but Friday's public hearing will be different. It's her first opportunity to tell her side of the story directly to the American people.
Giuliani has openly acknowledged that the men connected him with Ukrainian officials to discuss Biden.In her closed-door testimony, Yovanovitch said Giuliani's associates"may well have believed that their personal financial ambitions were stymied by our anti-corruption policy in Ukraine." If she can provide new information about that, it could undermine Trump's defense that he was working with Giuliani on a good-faith effort to clean up long-standing corruption in Ukraine.
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