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Off. >> have said nothing, nothing that coincides with what democrats are saying with their impeachment narrative. >> in a series of encrypted text messages we are learning senior diplomats discuss the suspension of military aid to ukraine, bill taylor, ambassador to ukraine texted the ambassador to the eu saying as i said on the phone it is crazy to get help in a political campaign, someone responded bill, i believe you were incorrect about donald trumps intentions, he has been crystal clear no...

Capitol hill answering questions from these three committees. these text messages come out between u.s. diplomats. it was kurt volcker. it was bill taylor, the temporary ambassador for u.s. and ukraine and gordon sunland ambassador to the eu. lets read these text messages and talk about it. bill said as i said on the phone i think its crazy to withhold security assistance for help with the political campaign. gordon sondland bill, i believe you are incorrect about the president trumps intentions...

Incorrect about president trumps intentions. the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind." but sondland then adding, "i suggest we stop the back and forth by text." according to the whistle-blower complaint, volker had regular dealings with president trumps personal attorney, rudy giuliani, who has aggressively pushed ukrainian officials to investigate biden. >> i spoke to ambassador sondland four times, i spoke to volker eight times. they basically knew everything i was d...

Are we now saying that security assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations? sondlund responds, call me. on september 9th. taylor again raises concerns. he writes to sondlund, as i said on the phone i think it is crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. more than four hours later and remarkably different tone than previous text, sondlund replies bill i believe you were incorrect about president trumps intentions. the president has been cl...

9th. september 9th is a key date. >> any time someone says call me, they dont want to answer. >> so bill taylor says, as i said on the phone, i think its craze is to withhold assistance for a political campaign. and then the ig officially notifies congress of a whistle-blower complaint. we know that happened on the same day as this text. all of a sudden in a legalistic way, gordon sondland writes, i believe you are incredible about president trumps intentions. the president has been clears. no q...

Assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations? and then taylor also saying, as i said on the phone, i think its crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign, making it very, very clear. gordon sondla know why he was in the midst of this, he was a big campaign contributor to the president, a million dollars plus, he was the ambassador to the european union. ukraine is not part of the european union. he writes back, i believe you are incorrect abo...

Witness, a potential witness in mr. taylor. but, again, when so much of this is taking place on whatsapp, thats the form theyre talking and then its moved off of that, again, you can conclude i believe that its become that ambassador sondland does not want to discuss what the presidents true intentions are. and you do see that, as you pointed out, a number of times. mr. taylor consistently, from the time he is placed in charge or is the second in command and then there is no ambassador, and he i...

Ambassador sondland does not want to discuss what the presidents true intentions are. and you do see that, as you pointed out, a number of times. mr. taylor consistently, from the time he is placed in charge or is the second in command and then there is no ambassador, and he is essentially the de facto ambassador, he has concerns about rudy giulianis role. and then you see ambassador volker who i would describe as a serious ambassador who is running a parallel diplomacy effort as rudy giuliani i...

Assistance for help with a political campaign, but this time sonlan says bill, i believe youre incorrect about president trumps intentions. he has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. then sonlan says we should stop texting about this. we have a lot to get into. were going to dig deeper with josh letterman. he has been looking through all of this, politico is calling these texts smoking texts. you tell us what stands out to you. >> two big take aways that we have been topouring thro...

Impeachment, there is no clear overarching message were hearing from the white house, we see the president taking the mantle and running the strategy himself. that is simply to say whatever is on his mind, seems, at the moment, and perhaps to put all of this out in public as if to say it publicly rather than in a secret telephone conversation with another world leader would somehow normalize the behavior and make it more acceptable. as you said, for those senators wondering what the president ex...