Adam Schiff read the tweet to Yovanovitch during the questioning, asking for her response. When he read the Somalia part of the tweet, Yovanovitch smiled incredulously. “I don’t think I have such powers,” she said. “Not in Mogadishu, Somalia, and 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.”
Schiff went on to ask Yovanovitch about the intimidation effort in the tweet, and what effect it will have on other witnesses. “It’s very intimidating,” she said. “I can’t speak to what the president is trying to do, but I think the effect is to be intimidating.”
“Some of us here take witness intimidation very, very seriously,” Schiff responded.