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Endless war. the safe zone the president has negotiated with president erdogan of turkey and president putt puttan -- putin can work if they behave. number one, i assume it means err -- erdogan and putin will be responsible for isis. two, i worry about the kurds. america made a commitment to our kurds, to our friends, the kurds. people with good intentions make promises. people with character keep them. now, the kurds are our allies. americas always had a foreign policy with a serious moral comp...

Through this impeachment inquiry of president trumps intentions is why we are conducting these investigations. and so you have to compare the information you get from different witnesses. and i will tell you that compared to ambassador sondland, ambassador taylor was extremely credible, was excruciatingly detailed about his recollections. and because of his expertise and his ironclad integrity, his testimony will be able to be held up as a significant component of the pathway to what we decide w...

Of president trumps intentions is why were conducting these investigations. so you have to compare the information you get from different witnesses, and i will tell you that compared to ambassador sondland ambassador taylor was extremely credible, was excruciatingly detailed about his recollects and because of his expertise and iron clad integrity, his testimony will be held up as a significant component of the pathway to what we decide when it comes to articles of impeachment as it should be. >...

And that that is the only way you could interpret it. all the rest of this is just -- window-dressing makes it sound too pleasant. its just the worst kind of propagandistic smears of lies and b.s. because if you describe it for what it clearly obviously is and how it was precooked to be from the very beginning, the only obvious outcome with the obvious intentions that you strip it away to that, you couldnt come out and say that. pretty that up. the only way to deal with it if you described it fo...

The phone i think its crazy to withhold aid for a political campaign. after a call with the president, bill, i believe you are incorrect about president trumps intentions. the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. i begin with cnn senior congressional correspondent manu raju with breaking details on taylors testimony. manu, tell us what lawmakers are learning from bill taylor and also how this might inform how they see those text messages that they already had. >> repor...

Elections and clear that this condition was driven by irregular policy channel that i come to understand was guided by mr. giuliani. and explained his rationale for raising concerned about a potential quid pro quo over text messages discussing the halting of u.s. security aid to ukraine with former u.s. envoy to the ukraine kurt volker and gordon sondland and on september 212019 now saying are we saying that security and assistance and white house meeting are cnned on investigations. >> and tayl...

Phone call to president trump. but what we dont know is what he told ambassador taylor in that phone conversation. it will be a key element. the details of that in terms of what we learn out of today. then theres another text that came just a week later from ambassador taylor saying, as i said on the phone, i think its crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. and then we had ambassador sondland at the time replying, bill, i believe youre incorrect about president...

Corruption generally or because the europeans werent giving enough money to ukraine. the testimony fills in the gaps between the text messages with other diplomats over the summer in which taylor raised alarm over the delay in money for ukraine. as the nthe new ukrainian president was vying for a meeting, sondland texted, are we now saying that the aid and meeting are conditioned on investigations. call me. as i said on the phone, i think it is crazy to withhold security assistance for help with...

Other conversations or memos had you been privy to that led you to actually lay it out like that? is this what were saying, that the one is contingent on the other. >> and to that point, we showed you the "call me." thats september 1st. a week later, september 9, taylor to sondland. as i said on the phone, i think its crazy to withhold security at assistance to help with a political campaign. that is the abuse of power, the corruption the democrats are building their impeachment case on. heres w...

You want us to go back into syria? we were there. and i understand that 100 or so could not keep at bay 15,000 turkish fighters, so why did they not keep them at bay and what do we do now? >> we teamed up with the fdf, using a small number of troops on the ground to roll back isis. but turkey told us at the time that they do consider the kurds their enemy. the p kk is a small terrorist portion. and they should not have invaded their neighbor, the bottom line. we tried to deter them, we still nee...