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Information we're getting is good. that we're avoiding witness tampering. that we're going through that process. and then it will be public. >> cnn is also reporting that tim morrison, who is on the national security counsel, an adviser there inside the white house, when he testifies next week will corroborate some key elements of ambassador bill taylor's testimony which gets to the idea there was a quid pro quo in terms of ukraine military aid and also the meeting between the two presidents. my question to you is, why is it important, why is a quid pro quo important, and is it, in fact, neces...

Nonpolitical people that have been through one administration after another. you've also got a john bolton who is the grand pumba saying rudy giuliani is a hand grenade and this thing about comparing it to a drug deal. it's a host of troubles. they have not been able to paint these folks with the same brush of partisan hacks. even though they've tried with folks like taylor that they did with those on the mueller report. >> putting john bolton in a happy days reference in the same sentence. >> people called him potsy for years. one more on cnn's reporting which is meticulous on this, it points...

Congressman jason crow, a former army ranger who serves on the armed services committee. you've been very critical of the president's decision-making in syria. i'm wondering if you can explain what's going to here. remove u.s. troops to protect u.s. allies, the kurds, but put tanks in to protect syrian oil fields which frankly aren't that productive anyway? how do you explain that? >> yeah, it's very hard to explain, actually. i wish i could. but there doesn't appear to be a plan. the president seems to be bumbling from one decision to the next. one moment he's going to leave troops in, then w...

I also don't see someone from a legal standpoint and it's not rudy, i mean someone with some chops in a matter like this providing counsel for the president. of course that demands the question would he follow the advice? but it just seems so scatter shot on the merit of the underlying charge. i get the politics. i get the optics. i get complaining about how you can't cross examine and it's behind closed doors, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. but on the underlying core facts of this case, what's at issue? >> michael smerconish, no limit to the props you deserve. thank you for coming on this m...

Proceed with this inquiry. and it's immoral, unethical and likely illegal. so there is no quid pro quo, but with that said, all the witnesses, all the information that we're seeing to date shows that there was actually also a quid pro quo which is even worse than just the request itself. so that's the position we're in. we can't follow this straw man argument there needs to be a legal standard that doesn't exist in reality. but, as you mention, the information shows there likely was one as well. and ambassador taylor and others are corroborating that. >> from your experience as an army ranger,...