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Much more on the truly stunning revelation from tuesdays public hearing. career u.s. diplomat david holmes says he overheard president trump ask the u.s. ambassador to the eu about the status of investigations. in hours, he testifies behind closed doors up on capitol hill. and tomorrow, theres breaking -- theres other breaking ranks developing. a career official over at the white house budget office is expected to tell lawmakers what he knows about why security aid for ukraine was frozen. our te...

And thats part of the inquiry. and so far we havent seen that. but we welcome it. and thats what an inquiry is about. ainsley: she proved your point she is saying he is going to have to convince us he is innocent. >> you are glad you said it that way. i was a cop and federal agent. you find a crime and find out who did the crime. in this case they found out who did it and then they invented a crime. again and again. this is a disgrace. this is a stain on a country. steve: isnt that called framin...

Youre the guy. youre the guy based on this, based on -- i mean ive seen -- ive seen church prayer chains that are easier to understand than this. ambassador taylor recalls that mr. morrison told -- now, again, this is i hereby swear and affirm from gordon sondland. ambassador taylor recalls that mr. morrison told -- that i conveyed this. >> let me just say that i dont consider myself a star witness for anything. >> reporter: kent and taylor, who are career non-political diplomats did not waver a...

Understand than this. ambassador taylor recalls that mr. morrison told, and i hereby swear and affirm from gordon sondland. ambassador taylor recalls that that i conveyed this message on september 1st. kent and taylor were steadfast that hundreds of millions of dollars of crucial security aid and a meeting between the presidents in washington were held back unless ukraine promised the investigation. >> mr. kent, is pressuring ukraine to conduct what i believe youve called political investigation...

Get involved in american politics. little did we know he was at the moment involved in back channel negotiations to do just that. because he was being told if he didnt announce investigations into joe biden, he wasnt getting that security aid. >> heres whats fascinating to me, that aid is held up in mid-july. by that time word had made its way to you and other people on the hill -- what do you know as someone deeply invested in ukraine policy about the reasons for this mistoreious hold on the ai...

Overall the republicans pushback yesterday? >> yes, no, youre totally right, that was new from congressman jordan, i think it is a sign that republicans feel that as this develops, they are going to need to come up with some new points of defense that could possibly resonate with people that theyre trying to reach here in the middle who are trying to figure out what to make of all of this. you know, i think it is something that sounded good in the hearing but if you go back to some of the notes ...

Politics. little did we know he was at the moment involved in back channel negotiations to do just that. because he was being told if he didnt announce investigations into joe biden, he wasnt getting that security aid. >> so heres whats fascinating to me, that aid is held up in mid-july. by that time word had made its way to you and other people on the hill that the aid was held -- someone deeply invested in ukraine policy about the reasons for this mysterious hold on the aid. >> right, so we do...

>> and you said there is opening statements. by the witness themselves also. >> it is my understanding youll get both will happen. >> both from the witness and the two -- >> that is correct. >> okay. the republican central message tomorrow is essentially president trump may have done this but his intentions were pure and there really wasnt a conditionality in the phone call. when you hear that, what do you think? >> the american people should watch the witnesses and decide for themselves because...

A one-off phone call. it was an entire pressure campaign to get ukrainians to launch two bogus investigations to influence our election, and the president used the withholding of critical security aid as well as dangling an important meeting with the white house in order to bribe ukrainians to engage in this election interference. thats what all these witnesses are going to say not only this week but next week. >> how likely is it republicans are going to, you know, push to debunk conspiracy the...

You know, shame on them. i dont support the clinton open we dont know how much of impeachment and that should have been a lesson. i mean, we put the country the -- of president trumps through hell in regards to that negative view of ukraine has impeachment inquiry. come directly from vladimir were doing it today in regards putin. >> no, of course. this is absolutely tied into russia. to the trump impeachment. and you have an election. theres no way you can separate these things. the people are t...