regretting now so clearly leaning on the no quid pro quo. even when the call notes themselves show there was a fairly obvious one after today's testimony of bill taylor. >> yeah, it seems like they should have gone with what mulvaney said. okay, there was a quid pro quo, get over it, it happens all the time in u.s. foreign policy. but instead they were relying on what the president was putting out there, which was the only thing that was discussed within this realm was what the transcript showed, which was i didn't explicitly say, you're not going to get military assistance unless you investigate the bidens. well, i guess the republicans weren't banking on the state department employees and the career officials actually defying the state department and testifying to congress and telling them everything that they knew and found out over the last, you know, six to eight months about what giuliani was doing. and this is also different and more explosive because for the first time, bill taylor has testified to the president's direct involvement in this. >> yes. >> with the russia