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Disturbing to democrats and republicans. >> well certainly mr. taylor's comments were disturbing, i encourage people to read the 15 pages of his testimony, there's a lot of disturbing information there, i don't know whether that's impeachable, up to the american public and up to the congress to decide. we had andy mccarthy thinking on if you think of the worst quid pro quo it may not be impeachable. still, 63 million people who voted for mr. trump who think that the people should decide. you're the representatives of the people and the people are more important than the representatives. >> the...

Story, but you're not supposed to have them there. and congressman schiff says nothing in that room is classified so why does it need to be held in the skiff? >> so he can control how the information gets out. when they tried to do this in the open of day at the judiciary committee, it failed on them. they get in the room to keep the press out to selectively leak out this little piece and that piece, instead of the whole story out and that's what we want, get the whole story out now. >> one of the stories that did get out was the full testimony of ambassador taylor, a 15-page statement, and it...

Aid was frozen. remember, bill taylor, if you don't want to take him from his word, take him from his text because we have them. sondland, if you don't want to take him from his word, and there are questions he has to answer with inconsistencies of what we've heard from volker and taylor, but it's all in the text. taylor is the man who said i think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. he said he believed that then and still believes it today. earlier he answered the key question of what happened on the phone with the president's ambassador to the eu, s...

All right. so here what's we now know. the top diplomat to ukraine asked to do the job by team trump. just placed the president of the united states at the head of an actual conspiracy. now the white house is referring to him with this other group of people as a radical. he is their guy. pompeo, secretary of state, asked him to take over for the ambassador they didn't like, all right? so enough with the noise, let's stick with the facts. in his sworn testimony, bill taylor eraessed any doubt about who was calling the shots and what the stakes were and the intent of a clear abuse of power that ...

They were just curious as to why they weren't getting the aid and how to get a better relationship. and if they didn't know they were being manipulated with this quid pro quo, then it's not really extortion. >> it's no the about extortion and it's not about being successful, it's what they tried to do in secret until they were found out and there was a whistle-blower that came forward and announced this to the whole world. the fact that they can't get away with it at the end of the day shouldn't excuse this kind of behavior. furthermore, this has -- i mean, i hear what the president and others...