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Wanted to make sure they were going to say they would investigate them. >> volker, assuming the president convinces president trump hell investigate, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail down a date to visit washington. >> in another message two weeks after the call, he seemed to know what was required for his president to visit the white house. telling him, once we have a date, we will announce an upcoming visit and an outlining of the reboot.

And we look at it, jeff, you saw on the right those who were saying why dont they release all of the testimony, all of the -- the transcripts of all the testimony thats been given so far. on the left, theyre saying, wow. what i just -- did i just listen to? tell me whats behind the wow that we are seeing from some members. >> it sounds like it was an explosive insofar as she testified that she was struck by the fact that she had been removed and it sounds like she also tied that removal pretty d...

To the testimony of yovanovitch, and we look at it, jeff, you saw on the right, those who were saying, why dont they release all of the testimony, all of the transcripts of all of the testimony thats been given so far, on the left theyre saying wow, what i just listened to. tell me what is behind the wow that we are seeing from some members. >> well, it sounds like it was an explosive insofar as she testified sha that she was struck by the fact that she had been removed and it sounds like she al...

Not to cooperate, given that it is a stacked deck against him. what are the requirements there? right now hes bypassing subpoenas and demands for people to testify including the european union ambassador and he sticking to that. >> if you read the document that the white house counsel sent to speaker pelosi outlining what a fair process and what precedent would suggest shouldnt have i e been, they arent following the president of any previous impeachments and really its not fair and impartial. o...

>> focus on what the law is that applies in this area. and the law that applies in this area is the constitution directly. that is where the focus should be. not on statutes or the procedural rules and to echo what elliott was saying, the president and the outsiders dont get to tell the house of representatives how to deal with impeachment. that is by the constitution reserved so them. they decide the process. they decide the substance and they decide whether to go forward or not and so were tal...

That your committee has received this week, and bear with me, or im going to go through just three of them and read them. july 25th, this is the morning before the phone call between zelensky and trump. u.s. envoy volcker to a ukrainian aide: heard from the white house. assuming president z convinces trump he will investigate, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail down day for visit to washington. august 10th, ukrainian aide to volcker: once we have a date for zelensky to visi...

There are a number of documents that your committee has received this week, and bear with me, or im going to go through just three of them and read them. july 25th, this is the morning before the phone call between zelensky and trump. u.s. envoy volcker to a ukrainian aide: heard from the white house. assuming president z convinces trump he will investigate, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail down day for visit to washington. august 10th, ukrainian aide to volcker: once we ...

There are a number of documents that your committee has received this week, and bear with me, or im going to go through just three of them and read them. july 25th, this is the morning before the phone call between zelensky and trump. u.s. envoy volcker to a ukrainian aide: heard from the white house. assuming president z convinces trump he will investigate, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail down day for visit to washington. august 10th, ukrainian aide to volcker: once we ...

Trump at that time. we have not confirmed that, but certainly that would be interesting for members of the hill and folks looking at this. i think that time frame is certainly important because the question is going to be, did you follow up with anyone after mr. taylor said this, and did they tell you how to respond to this? >> the president says no quid pro quo, but i also want to look at this text. here is the ukrainian presidents adviser telling volker, once we have a date, well call for a pr...

Whether the ukrainians would agree to do this investigation, to whether president zelensky of ukraine would get to have a big washington white house visit. i want to show you one of the text messages thats between ambassador volker and a guy named andrew yermak, who is a top aide to the ukrainian president. he says in this text message, "once we have a date, we will calling for a press briefing, announcing upcoming visit and outlining vision for reboot of the u.s./ukraine relationship, including...