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Ambassador, a political contributor and appointee. he had no business being involved in ukraine that we can determine because ukraine is not in the eu. so what was he doing involved in all of this, and was getting pushback from william taylor, the subsequent ambassador to ukraine after the original ambassador was pulled back presumably for objecting to the rudy giuliani shadow diplomacy, we don't know. we don't know if she will testify on friday, because she is still a state department officer. do we know whether masha yovanovitch will show up? >> andrea, democrats are moving forward as if she...

To people thinking he has any type of a war room. at the same time, there have been meetings, top officials want there to be a broader all hands on deck approach to the messaging here. all of this comes, and i know shannon has reporting on this as well, as the administration is poised to send out a letter to house speaker nancy pelosi saying we won't hand over documents until you hold an actually vote. republicans are trying to make the case that nancy pelosi held a press conference and this is not an official impeachment inquiry. will she do that? that remains to be seen but the white house t...

Ukraine ambassador of the u.s. ambassador to ukraine who wulia back by the president of the united states and will be testifying next week, marie jovanovic. this is bill taylor. the only career professional in the mix currently and he was poking back and saying it is crazy to talk about exchanging this kind of political, you know, favors for pressure against a leader. i don't have the exact text in front of me. >> withholds aid for political reasons. >> exactly. >> andrea these are very clear text messages. it seems to me. >> absolutely clear. >> when you read them i think the intention is abu...

Significant, andrea. it's significant that the president's top diplomat in ukraine felt as though there was a quid pro quo effort going on as it related to u.s. assistance. the fact that there were text messages that talked about whether or not they were essentially withholding a visit with ukraine contingent on whether this investigation was launched into joe biden. i tried to ask president trump about that directly. he sort of waved me off. he also waved off my colleague kelly o'donnell a number of times but she was able to asked him broadly about these text messages. he used it to say there...

That phone call with the president of ukraine and then expanding it, saying china should be investigating as well. he raised china, by the way, andrea, that was unprompted. that's one of the things that makes this such an extraordinary moment and undoubtedly it's going to fuel the scrutiny that the president is facing right now on capitol hill. house democrats are going to have a range of questions now not only about ukraine but about china as well. the biden campaign already firing back, saying that this is akin to the president's moment during the 2016 campaign when he called on russia, "rus...