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Investigate. >> not having all the facts, it certainly was enough in the whistleblower complaint than they apparently did. so i'm not sure why they didn't pursue it further. >> spoken like a careful attorney. he doesn't know if it was sloppiness or intentional, and i'm wondering if you can build on the point, we keep learning more information that suggests at a minimum there was extortion to committing a bribe, and to the extent foreign officials were involved, there might be other laws. your view? >> taylor's testimony today, i think there is no way that congress can't find the significant. t...

Power, certainly the president can do foreign policy, do you think today was negative for the trump white house? >> yeah. was it negative? i don't know that it could be any more more negative. taylor says, in his testimony, that gordon sondland said to him that trump said, we have to withhold the aid unless zelensky comes out and talks about burisma. that's the company that hunter biden got the contract from. so it's not a quid pro quo. it is literally a statement close to trump that trump said we're cutting off money that trump does not legitimately have the right to cut off. and with one tin...

Political favor for trump in exchange for military aid. that was contingent on the bribe that donald trump was soliciting, forcing ukraine to probe the dnc and the bidens and that he wanted a public declaration they would do it. let's stop right there. that is key. you have someone who was inside this process saying the process was to extort a bribe from ukraine. now, congress and prosecutors may ultimately decide if that evidence leads to a crime or a high crime. so that comes down the road. but what's new tonight is that there is an official on the record asserting it, which is significant. ...

Quote, during that phone call, ambassador sondland said trump told him he wants him to state publicly ukraine will investigate burisma and alleged interference in 2016. that's the whole biden stuff. he said, everything was contingent on opponent assistance. quid pro quo. biden for money. the president admitted he wanted biden for ukraine. they tried to walk it back. so if you say, ari, what is different today, this repetition, if you will? well, it is worse. because this is the person on the inside detailing the facts and the time and the place of the quid pro quo. what happened next? we know ...

Wanted. >> this is the first time i haerpd of the security witness, not just the white house migts with ms. zelensky, that were predicated? >> it's quid pro quo. it's con have aing a thing of value. it shows an a beachment provision of the constitution. >> yeah, i couldn't agree more. one thing that really struck me from the reporting of taylor's testimony today was how important it seemed to be that the ukranian president made these announcements publicly. that really speaks to me to this idea of how you say this was a thing of value. it wasn't even necessarily that the investigation was goin...