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It was president trump who demanded a foreign leader produce political propaganda on his behalf. it was the president who saw official foreign policy as a business transaction that could be profited because, as taylor quotes sondland, the businessman asks that person to way up. what was the profit? political advantage. this was about erasing the stink of how he got elected and getting the bidens. the cost of that, political am o mo. i've been to ukraine. i've seen the cost. the decision to withhold military aid matters. did you know 13,000 ukrainians are dead? who knows how many more will be. ...

Running this case, i would assume that the gods were smiling on me. by taylor is the kind of witness that you are happy to go into court with. >> okay. so if we start looking at what this is going to mean, i want to make sure i have the order right. just so you know, this stuff doesn't come out of my head. i have all this paper on the desk. we study all day to make it eas. it's got to be hard on us to make it more relatable. we're going to attack the source that's not going to work here. this man's resumé is too tough and they begged him to do the job so they have a problem here. what harm wa...

We now know what happened and them. a meticulous tapestry of turpitude, mr. bill taylor. it clearly indicates an orchestrated, intentional wrong, a clear abuse of the president's power. period. there could be no good faith argument made otherwise. trump told the president of ukraine to look at the dnc and the bidens. he told ambassador sondland that he wanted ukraine to announce those investigations, that everything was tied to that. it was known by all that there would be no aid nor any meeting with the two presidents until trump got what he wanted. sondland told taylor that the president tol...

Everything was dependent, says taylor. nothing changed until the president got what he wanted. and you can't pass this off as rudy giuliani just creating issues. today's testimony is a window into a coordinated effort involving cabinet officials, senators, ambassadors. that's in addition to the vice president, the acting chief of staff and who knows who else. they all got their orders and their idea of the intentions from the president of the united states. nowhere in any of the testimony, in the texts, in the white house transcript, is there mention of any other case, is there mention of any ...

Senate floor. >> andrew, what's the biggest problem with making that argument? >> it 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 what the constitution requires of you? and if you have engaged in a high crime or misdemeanor, that is the indicator for us that you have not and that you should be impeached. and i think that's clearly happened here. >> the real problem with the taylor testimony for them is you have sondland telling taylor that the president wanted it...