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Messages that were released to be playing a pretty active role in trying to advance the presidents goal of getting ukraine to investigate his political opponents. not only that, but also shutting down in real back on that. i want to show you one of the text messages released in which the top u.s. diplomat says as i said on the phone, i think it is crazy to with hold security assistance. he is the political appointee saying i believe you are incorrect about president trumps intentions. the presid...

Political reporter josh letterman. good morning. >> reporter: hi. >> what are the house committees likely to ask him about? what is their priority? >> reporter: they will wand to hear from ambassador sondland what he knew and understood what the presidents intentions were on ukraine. if you will recall ambassador sondland comes up not only in that whistle-blower complaint but also in those text messages that ambassador kurt volker handed over to congress last week and congress then released. he ...

Assuming he will help investigate, quote, get to the bottom of what happened, end quote, in the bottom of 2016, we will nail down date for trip to washington. after aid is frozen, bill taylor, the top diplomat to ukraine objects. as i said on the phone, i think its crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. a few hours later, sondland respond in a much more formal manner. i believe you are incorrect about president trumps intentions. the president has been crystale...

Joe biden from the presidents debunked attacks. the former vice president writing headlined trump wont destroy me and he wont destroy my family. this as questions arise whether bidens pushback -- whether its enough after the president had weeks to frame a narrative against him. nbc white house correspondent kelly odonnell is with us now. kelly,back to that story about the president pinning the call on rick perry. what was the point of bringing this up with republicans now? >> well, its hard to k...

Presidents political rival. what should i tell them? well, the trump appointee comes back five hours later with this like hilarious lawyered press release cover story in a text which is the same cover story theyre going to use later on when all becomes public. i believe youre incorrect about president trumps intentions. the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. the president is trying to evaluate whether ukraine is truly going to adopt the reforms and this is text. and ...

Assistance for help with a political campaign. ambassador to the eu and million dollar trump donor gordon sondland replying, in that language, that sure has to make you wonder whether he was speaking to an audience of one, right? and that one was not bill taylor, replying, bill, i believe you are incorrect about president trumps intentions. the president has been crystal clear. no quid pro quos of any kind. the president is trying to evaluate whether ukraine is truly going to adopt the transpare...

Prominent republican supporter saying are we now saying white house meetings are conditioned on investigations. sondland said at that point, call me. and then on september 9th, taylor said, as i said on the phone, i think its crazy. sondland said later i believe youre incorrect about president trumps intentions. the president has been crystal clear, no quit proquo of any kind. you know william taylor. is it realistic a man who had been an ambassador to ukraine would misunderstand? >> no. i know ...

Concern from taylor, the trump donor and now eu ambassador says, bill, i believe youre incorrect about president trumps intentions. the president has been crystal clear. no quid pro quos of any kind. he then asked to take the conversation offline. odd. nothing to hide, but you want to go offline? look, showing the presidents wrongful behavior is not our problem. its clear. the problem is that some of us refuse to accept it. that is one of our two problems, and i argue you dont refuse to accept i...

The call was all about digging into corruption. so thats the first reason. the second reason is he has been able to dodge, kind of stay out of the spotlight and dodge bulle bullets. and until recently thats worked. you know, i think now hes kind of lost control of the narrative. hes going to be under a lot of scrutiny as this plays out. susan, i have some things to read for you. bill taylor texts, as i said on the phone, i think its crazy to ask for help. then gordon soundland texts back hours l...

This next text message has gotten a lot of attention. one particular part of it. as i said on the phone its crazy to with hold security assistance for help with campaign. million dollar trump donor texts back hours later. i believe you are incorrect about president trumps intentions. he has been crystal clear. no quid pro quo. hes trying to evaluate if ukraine will adopt transparency zelensky promised during hids campaign. i suggest we stop the back and forth by text. discuss them directly. than...