Bloomberg news covering the impeachment inquiry. Billy, first off, who is William Taylor . Well, acting ambassador William Taylor is a key witness, ukraine ambassador, because of his Text Messages to colleagues in realtime back in september expressing concern about ukraine back channel negotiations by Rudy Guiliani on behalf of President Trump. And you mentioned the texts. What was important about this as far as the impeachment inquiry . What did they say . Well, the impeachment inquiry has been looking into whether President Trump was trying to use leverage of military aid to get dirt on his president ial rivals to have the ukraines investigate whether joe biden or the Democratic National committee. William taylor in his Text Messages expressed concern about this and even called it at one point crazy to withheld military aid in a bid to get dirt on the president s political rivals. How significant is his testimony . Well, he could significantly advance what is already being built along those lines by the previous some of the Previous State Department and National Security team members who had testified over the last two weeks, including former u. S. Ambassador marie yanvonvich who said need concerns. And where are we . These are the early stages . Well, the timeline for the inquiry has been batted around. What ive been told is it would go into december if not beyond. Theres still dozens of witnesses they hope to get to, not the least of which they float are guiliani himself, but there are some thoughts the democrats simply do not want to hold an Impeachment Vote in the house in 2020. They want to get it done in 2019, so the rush is on to get this done by the end of december in some eyes. All right, well, you tweeted a little about whats happening the rest of this week. Can you kind of lay it out for us . Well, the services and the well, Oversight Committee chairman cummings death has led to kind of a shakeup of the earlier schedule that had seven witnesses. There will now only about two. One is taylor tomorrow morning, and throughout the rest of the day, and then on thursday i mean, on wednesday, Deputy Assistant secretary defense laura cooper will be on hand to testify and thats it right now as far as we know for the rest of the week. Some five other witnesses that had been kind of tentatively scheduled either for reasons of negotiating time frames or because of the Memorial Services and stuff for the oversight chairman have been scrapped for this week. Theres been a lot of talk, billy, about these closed door interviews. How long do you see these continuing . I think theyll go for a few more weeks. Adam schiff, the chairman of the intelligence committee, one of the three conducting the focus on the ukraine, has promised there would at some point be open hearings. The two other chairmen have agreed, but when and how in depth and how far along, you know, how much those open hearings would actually matter is anybodys guess at this point because they do seem to be putting together a case and pretty much in private downstairs in a small, secure room. Well continue to follow you on twitter at house in session. And your reporting at bloomberg. Com. Billy house, thank you so much. Thank you. Well, we have a couple of live hearings coming up today on cspan 3. This morning, treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin will be testifying about housing programs. And live coverage gets underway in ten minutes at 10 00 eastern again on cspan 3. Then this afternoon, the Senate ForeignRelations Committee looks at impact of turkeys recent military offensive in syria against the kurds. Thats live at 2 30 eastern. And a quick reminder that you can follow all of our coverage online at cspan. 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