As it happened: Ex-US ambassador decries 'smear campaign' - BBC News
Marie Yovanovitch said she was forced out amid a pressure campaign from the White House.
Terri Sewell, an Alabama Democrat, wants to get personal. How is Yovanovitch feeling?

"It's been a difficult time. I mean I'm a private person, I don't want to put all that out there, but it's been a very, very difficult time. Because the president does have the right to have his own or her own ambassador in every country," Yovanovitch says.

Sewell asks whether the president has the right to malign someone's character.

"There's a question as to why the kind of campaign to get me out of Ukraine happened. Because all the president has to do is say he wants a different ambassador. And in my line of work - perhaps in yours as well - all we have is our reputation, so this has been a very painful period," the ex-ambassador responds.

But Yovanovitch declines a question about how this has all affected her family.

As for her fellow colleagues at the state department? It's had a "chilling effect", Yovanovitch says.