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Provided copies of text conversations regarding internal battles by diplomats about military aid. this portion of the conversation im about to read was obtained by abc and fox. it occurred september 9th, two days before the aid was released. it begins with william taylor, who is the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine at the time. he writes, i think its crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. gordon sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the eu responds, bill, i believe you ...

In the united states who is holding up sending the assistance until he got the agreement of the ukrainian authorities to pursue an investigation which no investigation was needed. >> what about the text messages between the diplomats and this senior ukrainian aide. you can read the alarm from ambassador bill taylor when he wrote, i think its crazy to with hold assistance for the help of a campaign. sondland implies he has the presidents intentions wrong. back to the point on pressure. >> yes, i ...

Campaign. sondland text back hours later defending the president. i believe youre incorrect about president trumps intentions. the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. and volker did stay in his opening statement he became aware that foreign aid to ukraine was being held up at the same time he was connecting ukrainian leadership aides to rudy giuliani. but, jake, volker saying he did not perceive those issues to be linked in any way. jake. >> jessica schneider, thank y...

Sounding an alarm. he says, are we now saying that white house meetings are contingent on investigations? some sent in, call me, meaning take this off line. the assistance is referring to $400 million in aide finally released on september 11. but september 9, two days before, taylor again brings up this point, i think i said on the phone its crazy to hold skurlt r recall. thats when they texted back hours later, defending the president, saying, i believe youre incorrect about the presidents inte...

He points to this exchange that is one of the text messages on september 9th from bill taylor, the acting u.s. ambassador in ukraine to gordon sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the european union. this is bill taylor. as i said on the phone, i think it is crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. sondland text back, bill, i believe you are incorrect about president trumps intentions, the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. >> and we shou...

Presidents intentions goes on to lay out its crystal clear he does not want a quid pro quo but suggests i stop we stop the back and forth by text. if you still have concerns i recommend you reach out to the two people to discuss directly. in this moment, there is a need for perspective. let me bring in right now susan glaser for a little bit of that. susan, when you look at text messages revealed handed over by kurt volker to the committees yesterday, what picture does this paint, despite what w...

As to what he should be saying? the statement was supposed to lay out how ukraine would pursue corruption investigations. that statement was never released opinion william tailyl tells volker the president cancelled his trip to ukraine. the next day he texted sondland. are we saying white house meetings are conditioned on investigations. he responds, call me. he brings up the point. as i said on the phone i think its crazy to with hold security assistance for help with a political campaign. sond...

Investigate joe biden. and he differentiated investigation news biden with a probe into burisma, the ukrainian company bidens son served on the board of. he said as unfounded accusations against the bidens came out publicly, he urged ukraines not to interfere in the u.s. politics and kurt volker didnt see a link to investigate 2016 and the freeze in military aid to ukraine. but other diplomats were suspicious. bill taylor, a senior u.s. diplomat in ukraine, repeatedly raised concerns about with ...

Administration seemed willing to withhold military aid unless an investigation was opened into the bidens. on september 1st as the aid was held up, bill taylor, the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine, texted gordon sondland, the ambassador to the e.u. saying are we now saying that security assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations? sondland replies, call me. suggesting that they take it offline. eight days later taylor text again, as i said on phone, i think it is crazy to w...

You against these attacks and youre basically on your own. >> interesting. michael, we have a little bit of time left. so i want to go through this. this is from abc news. they got a hold of these group text messages this year with congress. the timeline is important here because according to the reporting on september 9th the same date intel community i.g. sent the house committee a letter about the existence a whistle-blower report there was this exchange. trumps top diplomat to ukraine bill t...