whistle-blower complaint making the same linkage. >> so i want to be clear here, because i think this is important. this individual is the chief admission right now as far as i understand is currently running the embassy in ukraine because we don't have a formal ambassador. is that right? >> i believe it is. i believe it's bill taylor. >> he's the one he says in writing in text his as the u.s. chief of mission is that what is happening is we are withholding aid in order to extract a promise the ukrainians will undertake a political hit job for the president. >> that's correct. i think we've got to call this what it is. if the republicans don't want to call this quid pro quo, no problem. it's extortion. extortion is not only morally wrong and abuse of office, it's illegal. >> do you have any sense of what volker wrong is this, whether he was a willing party to this, he was being dragged along? what's your sense? >> in the session i attended