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Or at least the relevant pages of them. hes obviously turned them over to the state department he said in his testimony. hes got three ways he keeps records. one was electronically with his messaging, and the other two apparently were handwritten where he had a small notebook he carried with him, and he had a spiral notebook on his desk. so i dont know the quality of the notes, but they could be very helpful. if hes been subpoenaed, i think he has to bring those with him because they may want to...

Records. one was electronically with his messaging, and the other two apparently were handwritten where he had a small notebook he carried with him, and he had a spiral notebook on his desk, so i dont know the quality of the notes, but they could be very helpful. if hes been subpoenaed, i think he has to bring those with him because they may want to question him on those notes to see if there are any conflicts between his notes and his testimony. >> as you know, john, these public hearings have ...

To ambassador. he was an infantry officer in vietnam. he is the one that messaged with gordon sondland saying are we now saying security assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations? youll recall he text him back and said call me, were not continuing this on text. i always keep careful notes and i keep a notebook where i take notes on conversations especially when im not in the office. this is a habit common among ambassadors. >> and georgia kee kent. he is the top offici...

Zelensky committed to pursue the burisma investigation. everything was dependent on such an announcement. days prior taylor wrote a first-person cable to secretary of state mike pompeo describing the folly i saw in with holding military aid to ukraine at a time when hostility was still active in the east and russia is watching closely to gauge the level of american support for the ukrainian government. taylor was embarrassed he couldnt tell the ukrainians why the aid was held up and prepared to ...

Of impeachment sooner rather than later. thank you very much. now more on the testimony of the current top u.s. diplomat in ukraine bill taylor. jessica schneider is working the story for us. taylor describes a quid pro quo for u.s. aid going to crane. >> that is right, wolf. and taylor was specific to say that he was told that ukraine would get no military money until the countrys president zelensky announced the political investigations that the president was requesting. taylor was detailed ...

Burisma, biden and the 2016 elections. so he said that in the opening statement which, of course, we have now learned, after gordon sondland went back and revised his testimony that he did, in fact, tell bill taylor that. now, gordon sondland is a key player here because he was in touch with president trump repetitively over the last few months. but the interesting thing is, you look at this transcript, the few few pages after that opening statement is that lawmakers are questioning how bill tay...

Trump, to take care of the post be kind of caretaker and he saw something that he just felt to his core was wrong, and he did what an experienced bureaucrat does in that moment. he wrote it down. he made a record of it, those texts to gordon sondland and ultimately in his testimony. >> let me read that to you because it jumped out to us as well. this is from the new testimony we got tonight. quote, ive always kept careful notes. i keep a little notebook where i take notes on conversations. >> ye...

Do we have any way of knowing if he recorded this phone call, his recollection or his report of the phone call at in notes? >> i think he did. he describes his note taking process as hes got a notebook on him all the time and a notebook next to his phone all the time. this is just the way he does business. if hes sitting at a desk and takes a call, hes writing it down contemporaneously as he speaks those notes are now in the custody of the state department. thats something these investigators ma...

Testimony because bill taylor recounts a very specific phone call in which sondland tells him he has spoken to the president about this and sondland admits he made a mistake. he tells taylor i told the ukrainians an oval office meeting was contingent on opening up these investigations, i had it wrong. its everything. everything is contingent on them opening up these investigations and taylor makes very careful note of this in his notebook as he tells investigators he does everythinges he sees in...

Were part of that. >> the only corruption that you think president zelenskiy is concerned about corruption in his country had to do with biden and the dnc? he said giuliani told me about your interest in the dnc and in biden. >> did you read the transcript? >> yes, many times. i think i might even have it. oh, here it is. >> as i have, too, sitting in my notebook on my lap. i will tell you president zelensky mentions it first, he commends president trump for dealing with corruption over here. he...