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Former director of paid media for hill for america. back with us, charlie psychs, editor at large, and annie karni back with us as well. joel, as we look at what republicans and we'll focus on the senate for now since that's in front of us, it does appear when we do get to a trial, which is most probable after a vote coming from the house for impeachment, where are republican senators going right now? in one example that have, for instance, senators johnson and grassley calling for state department documents to be released related to hunter biden and burisma, this posted recently on his websit...

Wrestling with precisely what they were going to do about that pressure. there were a number of voices along the way telling the new ukrainian president to steer clear of meddling in elections and that included ambassador bill taylor and both republican and democratic members of the u.s. senate. ambassador taylor talked about in his opening statement today. >> on september 5th i accompanied senators johnson and murphy during their visit. when we met with president zelensky, his first question to the senators was about the withheld security assistance. my recollection of the meeting is that bot...

They were going to do about that pressure. there were a number of voices along the way telling the new ukrainian president to steer clear of meddling in american elections. and that included ambassador bill taylor and both republican and democratic members of the u.s. senate. ambassador taylor talked about in his opening statement today. >> on september 5th i accompanied senators johnson and murphy during their visit to kiev. when we met with president zelensky, his first question to the senators was about the withheld security assistance. my recollection of the meeting is that both senators s...

Second meeting is august 27th. zelensky meets with you and ambassador bolton and others and again there's no linkage of security assistance dallass oll investigate of the bidens. the third meeting zelensky meets with you and senators johnson and murphy and once again there was no linkage of security assistance dollars. three meetings with the president of ukraine and no linkage. that's accurate? >> mr. jordan, it's certainly accurate on the first two, first two meetings, because to my knowledge the ukrainians were not aware of the hold on assistance until the 29th of august. >> from the politi...

And senator johnson, there was discussion of the security assistance. >> no linkage? >> there was not discussion of linkage. >> three meetings face to face with president zelensky, no linkage. yet in your deposition you said this and you said it again the first hour of the majority. my clear understanding was security assistance money would not come until president zelensky committed to pursue the investigation. my clear understanding was they weren't going to get the money until president zelensky dm committed to pursue the investigations. with all due respect, your clear understanding was ob...