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Improper for the president of the United States to demand a Foreign Government investigate a u. S. Citizen and a political opponent. Its 2300 hours g. M. T. 6 pm in washington d. C. On a packed day in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump for officials have been testifying before the u. S. House Intelligence Committee 2 of them who listened in on july 25th phone call with the ukrainian president said is commons during the call were unusual and improper donald trump is accused of withholding aid to ukraine to pressure it into investigating his political rival joe biden now theres ...

Concerns and if im forgetting one, please remind me, but the two concerns i had, was one i did not see representatives of sc legal on the call and i wanted to make sure that the Legal Adviser and his deputy were aware of the call and i was also concerned about taking steps to protect the memcon limited disclosure for fear of the consequences of it leaking. And you were concerned about it leaking because you were worried about how it would play out in washingtons polarized political environment, correct . Yes. And you were also worried how that would lead to the bipartisan support here in congr...

The september time frame, but i want to go back two months, to july, before the july 25th call. You testified, ambassador taylor, in your Opening Statement that it was in the middle of july when you understood that the white house meeting was first a condition on these investigations. Is that accurate . Yes. We were preparing and i agreed that the white house meeting was going to be an important step in u. S. ukrainian relations. So, in june and in early july, attempts to work out a way to get that meeting included a phone call. And so there were several conversations about how to have this ph...

Security economic and Technical Assistance were to continue and if i had the backing of the secretary of state to implement that policy and i worried about what id heard concerning the role of Rudy Giuliani who had made several controversial statements about ukraine and u. S. Policy for the country so during my meeting with secretary pompeo on may 28th i made clear to him and the others president present that if the u. S. Policy toward ukraine changed he would not want me posted there and i could not state issued me that the policy of strong support for ukraine would continue and that he would...

Been able to talk about what trumps actual motivations were . Well, they they dont i dont think the witnesses who knows what i mean, the president s motivation is sort of transparent. He wants to win the next election. He thought biden would be a factor and he wants to take him out. You know, two guys on the call have both been very clear, no pressure, no pushing, no linkage to investigations and both president zelensky and President Trump have said. And of course president zelensky didnt pledge to do any investigations prior to the aid being released. The ukrainians didnt even know the aid wa...