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And someonotetaker -- he is a notetaker. >> the receipts, so to speak. as part of your reporting you have new material as far as what taylor testified regarding quid pro quo. >> reporter: yes. so the democrats are trying to pin down these folks going up to the hill on if there was a quid pro quo based on what they saw. so bill taylor was asked specifically if there was a quid pro quo, because the person who asked the question said, listen, what you are saying here is that the deal was that zelen...

Not yet been made by the committees but certainly, jake, many democrats up there on capitol hill will think he would make an ideal first witness as this iengent -- as the inquiry enters the next phase. >> sunlen serfaty, thank you so much. lets chew over this. democrats believe that .is unavailable witness and jackie speier on the house intelligence committee said, quote, hes rock solid. detailed note taker, unimpeachable and 50 years to his country and doesnt get much more top gun than that. ...

Again, this time for an open hearing. he has not gotten a formal request from the committees for this. tomorrow they are going to vote on some of the rules for what this will actually look like, but hes willing to. that is key here, because she the person who told lawmakers he was told by the u.s. ambassador to the eu gordon sondland, that everything with regard to ukraine was dependent on zelensky publicly stating he would investigate 2016 and the bidens. therefore, laying out the most compelli...

Little bit hey wire since then in terms of people who are defending the president. i wanted to ask you, though, we felt watching from outside -- the other side of that closed door -- that taylor must have documentation to bolster these assertions that we read in his opening statement. was he able to provide documentation to the intelligence committee? does the state department have that and you have to fight the state department to get it? were you able to get corroborating information from him?...

Terms of people that are defending the president. i wanted to ask you, though, we felt watching from outside, on the other side of that closed door, that taylor must have documentation to bolster these assertions that we read in his opening statement. was he able to provide documentation to the intelligence committee? does the state department have that and you have to fight the state department to get it? were you able to get corroborating information from him? >> thats a great point. in fact -...

Bill taylor, trumps top diplomat in ukraine laid out that evidence of a quid pro quo telling lawmakers, democrat and republican on the committee in the room that president trump withheld military aid until the ukrainian president announced an investigation into joe biden. so today the best graham could do to push back against those allegations was to say this -- >> did he talk to the president? >> he talked to ambassador sondland who talked to the president. >> thats hearsay. ? hearsay? taylor i...

Vladimir putin than vladimir putin could have done in a hundred lifetimes. >> and what about the side meetings with vladimir putin where, oh, whoops, theres no note taker. >> no note taker. >> i mean, i think we have to stop thinking that hes completely illiterate and wonder if there is a strategy here that is quite the opposite. >> as the russians like to say, objectively speaking, hes serving the interests of russia. >> he is serving the interests of russia. >> whether subjectively he sees it ...

Instead, what the president listened to with putin and orban and giuliani and it soured his view on the ukrainians and that instead of trying to go to support the ukrainians, thats when the president then instead went to them for a favor to dig up dirt in the political campaign. so i do think we see this from a foreign policy point of view as a very depressing disappointing and dangerous exercise of diplomacy by a president who simply isnt going to get reined in. that meeting with orban accordin...

Because the read-out that we get from the white house, whatever they release today, may not be the full content of that conversation. and if theres anything we know from the mueller investigation, its that this president will go to extraordinary lengths to obstruct an investigation into his misconduct. >> talk to me more about that. this transcript that the president says will be released today, what are the limits that you see in that? >> well, first of all, we dont know if its in fact a transc...

President has, all of the work the state department and others are doing on behalf of ukraine going forward will be subject to congressional scrutiny. all of the work that should be done likely will be evidence, including the meeting happening in three hours between president trump and president zelensky. you can kind of see them wanting to get in there and compare notes about how to handle it. >> i cant even believe the news some days. i cant believe it is happening on this day. >> it is happen...