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20 section election interference, and that president zelensky should want to do that himself? >> that's right. we had a number of different accounts on this. >> they are up on the boards here. >> i see this. ambassador taylor said that mr. morrison said something similar, their understandings of that conversation was there was a clear directive that there was a quid pro quo factually from the conduct, from the actions. we talk a lot today about the words and zelensky said no pressure, trump had no pressure no quid pro quo. as an investigator, as a prosecutor, you need to look at the actions to...

True in the text message, including that there was no quid pro quo of any kind when he testified and we saw the video earlier that they are absolutely assuredly was as it related to the white house meeting. >> this september 7 call andy september 9th text occurred after the press reports, that is after the press reports that president trump is conditioning military aid on investigations of his political rivals, is that correct? >> yes. this text occurred after ambassador sondland relayed the message to president zelensky. >> mr. goldman, the investigative committee receive any other evidence r...

Greatest power in the world and ukraine, which is so dependent on the united states not just for the military assistance but for all of its support made such a request effectively a demand because president zelensky could not in reality say no. >> is this vast power disparity in part because ukraine has been at war with russia since russia invaded five years ago, and over 13,000 of the ukraine have died? >> yes, and the only has the u.s. provided its military budget but a critical ally and rallying other countries to support ukraine. europe actually gives i think four times as much money as th...

You're reading the quote. yes. >> okay. now, the president and some of his defenders here have tried to excuse his misconduct by pointing to statements from the ukraine president that he was not under pressure touk give in president trump's demand. did your investigative committees consider those statements by president zelensky? >> we did. and we found that the statements of what is, effectively, an extortion victim are not particularlyrt relevant to the actual truth of the matter because president zelensky cannot, in reality, for the same reasons that he's -- he interpreted the request to be...

Hard to do whatever it takes to help the american president. he understood, however, because he's a savvy guy, i spent a while with him, he understood and now i'm guessing that this would cause problems if he were to choose a republican over a democrat. >> the testimony says that. >> or decide to investigate -- right, biden and the clintons, that would put him in an awkward position. what if trump didn't win? he was trying to play both sides and delay and punt and when it became absolutely clear he couldn't could do that anymore, he agreed to come on my show and he was going to announce it. th...