before ambassador william taylor testified today, rudy giuliani was already under investigation for his back-channel dealings with ukraine along with two of his associates, lev parnas and igor fruman. lev and igor will be rained in federal court tomorrow on charges tied to their dealings with ukraine. federal prosecutors in new york city in charge of that investigation will surely be studying the transcript of today's deposition with ambassador william taylor for more evidence of what rudy giuliani has been up to. we have access only to ambassador taylor's opening statement in what became ten hours of testimony. in that opening statement, ambassador taylor said the push to make president zelensky publicly commit to investigations of burisma and alleged interference in the 2016 election showed how the official foreign policy of the united states was undercut by the irregular efforts led by mr.