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To the impeachment inquiry and proof that looks can be deceiving. the presidents allies in the house today staging a protest of sorts, storming the committee room where the impeachment inquiry is taking place. they are complaining about the process at a time when their own staff lawyers are telling them the substance of the testimony is beyond damaging to the president. substance before stunts here. the top diplomat in ukraine bill taylor testified yesterday for nearly ten hours. he drew lines f...

Businessman asks that person to pay brup siup before signing th. taylor testified that rationale made to sense to him and we saw that text from taylor calling it "crazy" to hold up aid and assistance to ukraine for political gain. of course, democrats are pouncing on this, and pointing to taylors testimony as the smoking gun here. saying that he really confirmed ukraines pl required for that house meeting with the president and military aid, and that taylor also pinned sondland as knowing all of...

Instance i kid you not fourth hand accounts of what was said. we still stick to the same conclusion or the facts that the ukrainians were not aware that the security aid was withheld or held up until august 29th. it was released on september 11th, how can there be a quid pro quo when they werent even aware that it was withheld? >> its very simple, they are claiming there was a quid pro quo with the president trump with the president of ukraine on july 25th. they now find all they said on august ...

>> laura: i read the entire 15 page opening statement by taylor and you know what i find repeatedly true? these are second, third, in one instance i kid you not fourth hand accounts of what was said. we still stick to the same conclusion or the facts that the ukrainians were not aware that the security aid was withheld or held up until august 29th. it was released on september 11th, how can there be a quid pro quo when they werent even aware that it was withheld? >> its very simple, they are cla...

He did tell us in the campaign his goal was to pull back from overseas wars. theres a great national fatigue with 18 years of international military operations that to many americans and certainly to president trump have not been worth the effort, worth the money, worth the bloodshed. what i think people are talking about here though is the way its being done. its not just that theres a desire to pull out. its the way its being done has provided an opening for russia that doesnt seem to concern ...

Directly to the president, but remember we know by the time hes having the conversations with sondland about these, about this entire withholding of aid, theres already been a couple of months worth of conversations that sondland has already been having. so theres a history that reveals itself in these conversations that show up in the texts and that apparently are now being discussed on capitol hill. >> is it squishy enough? this sort of degrees of removal to give the president cover? i mean, w...

The phone i think its crazy to withhold aid for a political campaign. after a call with the president, bill, i believe you are incorrect about president trumps intentions. the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. i begin with cnn senior congressional correspondent manu raju with breaking details on taylors testimony. manu, tell us what lawmakers are learning from bill taylor and also how this might inform how they see those text messages that they already had. >> repor...

Former top ambassador in ukraine. when you understand what is coming out of this hearing, our reporting indicates he has testified. he was told by another diplomat, the ambassador of the european union, gordon sondland, security aid. this military aid from the u.s. that was to go to ukraine bought held up by the president could have been held up in part because of a push for ukraine to publicly announce an investigation into joe biden and his son. so that is the backdrop of this language. so how...

The aid could have been withheld because of these investigations. sondland testified last week and asked about this as well. according to a source familiar with his testimony theyre saying its consistent with what taylor testified to raising the possibility that the investigations could be tied to delay in aid and other matters as well including corruption, matters involving ding demand ukraine. one reason why according to this source, sondland suggested to taylor, simply speculating. neverthele...

National committee and origins of this. and learning, both parties familiar with what he testified to, that bill taylor said that gordon sondland, the eu ambassador, u.s. ambassador to the european union told him that a reason why the aid could have been delayed, perhaps would be, because of this, the demand, the ask for ukraine to publicly announce these investigations that could help the president politically. now, that was part of the conversation that had been occurring. the context is this,...