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Mulvaney put a hold on that security assistance and said the only reason given was that the order came at the direction of the president. with me now is vermont democratic congressman peter welsh. he serves on both the house intel and oversight committees. i know you're going into that testimony right after we wrap up here. so let's get right to it. what questions do you have for ms. croft? >> well, it's what you said in your opening. what we're trying to do is a thorough investigation, who knew what, when. this all starts with the president's own language. his phone call and the read out of t...

Said he'd have rudy giuliani and bill barr call him, and that's the heart of this. so what mr. taylor did, or ambassador taylor did, he kind of elaborated on how extensive those efforts were, but the heart of this is really very simple. the president in a phone call with his own voice, his own words, requested a foreign power to provide assistance in a domestic political campaign. that's against the law. and by the way, he did that the day after director mueller testified that the new normal may be russian interference or foreign interference. >> congressman peter welch and congressman andy le...

All are msnbc analysts. ambassador sherman, i want to start with you. we just heard congressman peter welch create some breaking news here. he's a member of the committee who's heard the testimony of ambassador sondland, now ambassador taylor. he believes gordon sondland is close to or in danger of perjury charges for his testimony. >> lawrence, i'll leave that to the lawyer in the trio here this evening, jeremy. but i will say that there is absolutely no reason not to believe everything that bill taylor has said. i first served with bill taylor when i was the assistant secretary for legislati...

Taylor's view undoubtedly condemned more ukraiyoukrainiane as he illegally withheld aid that had been mandated by an act of congress. after william taylor's testimony today, donald trump's impeachable by the house of representatives is even more of a certainty than it was yesterday. and when members of the house are voting to impeach donald trump, followed by the senators who will vote to convict and remove donald trump, many of them will be quoting the elements of the impeachable offenses outlined by william taylor today including the very clear quid pro quo that some republicans until today ...

President undermine the national security of the united states for his own political end. so that's a really sad day. and it just confirms what the president, himself, has said. >> congressman welch, did this testimony give in the clearest possible terms yet the quid pro quo that some republicans have been claiming was not present? >> well, it did. i mean, you nailed it, really, in your opening. essentially, what ambassador taylor saw was that the policy that we've had in ukraine since 1 1991, by the way, he was appointed as ambassador by president bush, where we had as a goal to help ukraine ...