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Cable to the secretary of state? >> once. >> this time? >> yes, sir. >> in 50 years. >> commanders don't send cables, but yes, sir. >> ambassador, you know taylor very well. what does he say that he says in his career. one time, one time in his career, does he go to tsending cable and it was to mike pompeo and it was about the ukrainian aid. >> it says two things about him, he's a very meticulous, very careful professional. you could see that throughout the course of his testimony where he took meticulous notes, was very precise in wording and dates. bill is not someone who speaks in broad bru...

Burden of proof, and with sondland in particular, he didn't clarify after the fact. he also clarified when he spoke to ambassador bill taylor. how? when he said, you know what? i was actually mistaken, bill taylor. it's not just the white house meeting that is at issue here. it's everything. so he clarified in favor of a point that actually scores a particular area in a category for the democrat who were looking toward impeaching the area. >> ambassador, was there something else that happened today that seemed quite extraordinary. it was just a level of detail. we know a lot about bill taylor,...

This unprecedented move which is a cable that goes directly to the secretary of state. we know for certain when these things happen that the secretary reads it and it tends to go to the white house as well as to the pentagon so a number of senior officials in the administration must have seen this cable, and during his closed testimony, bill said that he understood that pompeo had taken a copy of that message to the white house. so it's an exceptional step that conveys his very, very deep concern. >> right. and pompeo again, someone to laura's point who has been held back by the administration...