russia. is it now going to be an accepted norm that the president, that the incumbent gets to use the entire apparatus of our government for nasty partisan political purposes to destroy any possibility of a viable political opponent, that's not how a democracy works. >> i want to know how much you can tell us about what you heard today. obviously it happened in closed session. can you confirm the text message we read in which the current chief mr. taylor i believe in ukraine who says it's crazy that we are withholding aid for a political purpose. >> i can, and i think the crinology there is also important, the sequence. that text was written before the whistle-blower complaint. so for republicans to argue that this blew apart the narrative that he made that linkage before