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Into conducting investigations to aid his reelection campaign and did so by withholding official acts, white house meeting or hundreds of millions of dollars of needed military aid it will be up to us to decide whether those acts are compatible with the office of the presidency. finally, i want to say a word about the president and secretary pompeo's obstruction of this investigation. we have not received a single document from the state department and as ambassador sondland's opening statement today will make clear, those documents bear directly on this investigation and this impeachment inqu...

If he sought to condition, extort or bribe an ally to aid his re-election campaign and did so by withholding official acts, white house meeting, hundreds of millions of dollars of needed military aid, it will be up to us to decide whether those acts are compatible with the office of the presidency. finally, i want to say a word about the president and secretary pompeo's obstruction of this investigation. we have not received a single document from the state department and as ambassador sondland's opening statement today will make clear, those documents bear directly on this investigation and t...

Do about it in this moment. >> i just want to read this, ross. this is for you, okay? it's from cnn's reporting. the source said that even in those early weeks, zelensky and his team realized ukraine's relationship with the u.s., including a potential face to face meeting with trump, could be at stake if they did not support the continuation of investigations like burisma. quid pro quo? >> so it certainly sounds like that. i spent a lot of time reading ambassador taylor's opening statement today, and he certainly alleges a quid pro quo. that's all very troubling. also troubling is the question...

About, are public, and so the question is what, if anything, will the republicans in congress do about it in this moment. >> i just want to read this, ross. this is for you, okay? it's from cnn's reporting. the source said that even in those early weeks, zelensky and his team realized ukraine's relationship with the u.s., including a potential face to face meeting with trump, could be at stake if they did not support the continuation of investigations like burisma. quid pro quo? >> so it certainly sounds like that. i spent a lot of time reading ambassador taylor's opening statement today, and ...

Everybody back, given the history where they have invoked that policy in the past, hadn't been successful, seemed like there was a chance that a lot of these people wouldn't come forward because they would be afraid of retribution from the white house. and now you not only have seen most of them come forward or many of them come forward. but you are seeing them come forward and offer damaging account after damaging account. i just want to quote from sondland's opening statement today. all my actions had the blessing of secretary pompeo. secretary pompeo sent me a congratulatory note that i was...