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Russia. based on this phone call, according to what david holmes testified, the big stuff trump cared about was, quote, the biden investigation. i think we'll see gordon sondland definitely testify to that when he comes in on wednesday. as john said, i don't think anyone's concerned about staying in the president's good graces. they just want to protect their own skin at this point. >> can i make one final point? all of this investigation has followed that release of the call summary. that call summary in the president's own words made pretty clear what happened. all we've been seeing since th...

William taylor. >> good afternoon. i would like to walk you through a couple points raised by my colleagues on the other side. one is a claim that the july 25 call summary shows no evidence of pressure on the ukrainian government. in fact, they argue the ukrainians do not feel any pressure at any time to comply with any of president trump's request for investigation. in fact, ambassador taylor, and your deposition in october, you stated that due to the hold president trump placed on aid to the ukraine, the ukrainians became quote-unquote desperate. isn't that right? >> in august, they did not ...

Is my interpretation so that is not how we impeach and remove residents who are democratically elected. that's how they find out which one of them is going to be asked the prom by the quarterback. >> julie: chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. >> at this critical stage, house republicans have put out a memo countering the democrats allegations. in it, they argue the july 25 call summary the best evidence of the conversation shows no conditionality or evidence of pressure. number two, they have both said there was no pressure on the call. number three, the ukr...

That it be perceived to be done on the level free from partisan influence. and right now there are questions about that and that's not good for doj and that's not good for the american people. >> okay. so, having said that, what you just said, on top of that, his name, barr's name is mentioned in the ukraine call summary. should he recuse himself from the investigation like jeff sessions did when it became clear he might have a conflict of interest? >> yeah, we all know how that worked out for jeff sessions, right? that was the end of his personal relationship with the president and it's what ...

Seventh floor and up the street, meaning at the white house. yovanovitch goes on. she called me about an hour later. so now it's 1:00 a.m. in the ukraine. she said there was a lot of concern for me and that i needed to be on the next plane home to washington. and i was like what, what happened. and she said i don't know, but this is about your security. you need to come home immediately. yovanovitch makes clear that she still feels threatened. also from today's transcripts yovanovitch was asked about part of the white house summary of trump's call with ukrainian president zelensky in which he ...