year i became increasingly concerned that our relationship with ukraine was being fundamentally undermined by an irregular, informal channel of u.s. policy making and by the withholding of vital security assistance for domestic political reasons. joining us now to talk about this and more is chris coons. he's a member of the appropriations foreign affairs and judiciary committees. good morning, senator. >> good morning, alisyn. always good to be on. >> great to have you. all this happened on the house side. you're on the senate side. but now that his opening statement has been made public, do you think that all of the jaw-dropping revelations that ambassador taylor made will change anything on the senate side? particularly among your republican colleagues? >> well, that's hard to know. but anyone who paid attention to ambassador tailor's testimony yesterday has got to sit up and pay attention. bill taylor is regarded as a career diplomat. not someone who is known to have any publicly identified