Good Friday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

Stay tuned after the show for a message from Stop the Hit Coalition.

And I'm Jake Sherman. Welcome to impeachment hearing day two. In a few hours, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, will appear in front of the House Intelligence Committee for the second open impeachment proceeding.

Here's what to expect.

Democrats tell us they'll have her detailed the political retribution she experienced at the hands

of Rudy Giuliani and his cadre of aides and advisors.

And Democrats telling Yovanovitch was totally screwed.

She was a well-respected 33-year veteran of the State Department where she has served as

an ambassador under George Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.

Yovanovitch was an official who fought corruption wherever she went, Democrats will say,

until one day she started hearing rumblings that Giuliani was looking to get her canned.

What did she hear from Ukrainians as she was being pushed out the door?

And what did she hear from the administration, for example, when she was told to get on a flight at 1 a.m. because she was in pushed out the door. And what did she hear from the administration, for example,

when she was told to get on a flight at 1 a.m. because she was in danger. This removal,

Democrats will say, was a precursor to what they consider the improper behavior by President Donald Trump. Republicans are already saying that Yovanovitch is a sideshow. She, they will say,

was not in Kiev for any

of the time when Trump was alleged to have been trying to hold up military aid for an investigation

into the Bidens. They will also say Trump is well within his rights to fire ambassadors

whenever he pleases. Challenges for both. Democrats need to keep the line moving, as they say in

baseball, new revelations, new details, new color. Networks are still planning to take this live, and the cables all will too, so the lights are still bright. Republicans, to put it bluntly, can't look like they're whacking a career Foreign Service officer who happens to be female. Republicans have one woman on Intel, so they tell us they have to be exceedingly careful not to look as if they're

ganging up on her. There will be more tomorrow. Mark Sandy, a senior White House budget official is prepared

to testify if he receives a subpoena. He will receive a subpoena. Meanwhile, CNN is reporting that

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