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Why was he so detailed? because he was worried about what was going on around him and what he had unfortunately become a part of. the other big takeaway, this idea of there's no quid pro quo here. they don't need one to make a political judgment that this was abusive of the president's office, but if you want one, you've got two from taylor's testimony today. in just his opening statement, i don't even know what he said in the testimony, but you heard connolly say it reinforced the same message. administration officials were wrapped up in what he see s as parallel diplomatic effort to benefit ...

Problem with making that argument? >> just completely ignores the standard that we try to hold our presidents to. it's not were you a successful criminal, it's did you live up to the -- your oath, did you live up to the what the constitution requires of you? and if you have engaged in a high crime or misdemeanor, that is an indicator for us you have not and you should be impeached. i think that's clearly happened here. >> you have sondland telling taylor that the president wanted it done a certain way, which is give me what i want or you're not getting anything and then sondland told the ukrai...

I don't know what you're waiting for on that. >> is there anything else you want the audience to know? >> it is up to the senate but, remember, we also help provide managers on the floor. >> do you know who those will be? too early in the process >> i don't but i'm looking forward to it. >> congressman, thank you very much for keeping us in the loop. >> thank you, chris. >> taylor's testimony has to be setting off alarm bells. it even implicates the president for the actions at the heart of the impeachment inquiry and he's not a never trumper. he's not some radical guy that's code, strawman, f...

Let's get after it. >> now look, the white house is doing what it does worst, it's attacking the source, but they can't do that here. this comes from their own. the president's top diplomat in ukraine, the man asked by trump secretary of state of course he's for every citizen but it tim team, pompeo went to taylor, asked them to do the job. this is their team. and mr. taylor confirmed in painstaking detail what happened in ukraine. he details it as wrong and abusive of power. the release of aid to ukraine was contingent on the country pursuing an investigation against the bidens, against the d...

Saying that the president says no quid pro quo. look, this president may be unethical and abuse i have ive power but he's not stupid. ambassador sondland said that he had talked to president zelensky and mr. yermak, if president zelensky did not clear things up in public, we would be at a stalemate. that's all a quid pro quo is. when taylor said to him in a text, you've seen it, he didn't like aid being upheld for help in an election, sondland took it offline, then admitted that was what was going on, as you saw above. what did he then do? he tried to keep this conspiracy secret. he didn't wan...