building houses with habitat for humanity a few days later. we wish the president another full and speedy recovery. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." erin burnett out front starts right now. out front next. breaking news. blistering testimony from trump a top diplomat in ukraine tying aid in the country to getting dirt on joe biden. trump's allies warning the president is likely he will be impeached in the house. so what's the president sea strategy now? anxious democrats looking at the 2020 field apparently asking is there anyone else? let's go out front. and good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, the breaking news. explosive testimony from trump's top diplomat in ukraine, bill taylor behind closed doors for ten hours and if you read just his 15-page prepared opening statement you know that trump offered a quid pro quo.

period. full stop. end of story according to taylor. this opening statement itself is thorough. it is detailed. in fact, for taylor to read these 15 pages it took over an hour. taylor telling lawmakers that president trump used the powers of his office to push ukraine to investigate biden and the 2016 election and a debunked con spur s conspiracy theory. the text message sent by taylor to the ambassador of the eu gordon sondland in september. let me remind you of the text message. that said are we saying that security assistance and white house meetings are conditioned to investigations. >> sondland responds call me. taylor revealing exactly what was said on that phone call and this comes from the opening statement. i want to read the lines that are really important. >> he says, during that phone call ambassador sondeland told me that president trump had told him that he wants president

zelensky to state publicly that ukraine will investigate bu burisma, the company that hunter biden was on the board of, and alleged u rain kran interference in the 2016 election. everything which he put in quotes was dependent on such an announcement including security assistance. he said that president trump wanted president zelensky to put president zelensky, quote, in a public box by making a public statement about ordering such investigations. six days later, taylor writes and he's recounting he had with trump's official in charge of europe, tim morrison and taylor testifies again writing here according to mr. morrison, president trump told ambassador sondland that he was not asking for a quid pro quo, but president trump did insist that president zelensky go to a microphone and say he is opening investigations of biden and 2016 election interference and that president zelensky should want

to do this himself. okay. it does not matter what you call something. what matters is what it is, and what bill taylor lays out in excruciating detail is the definition of a quid pro quo which is what this impeachment investigation is all about. now the white house and republicans are on defense tonight. congressman mark meadows telling reporters nothing new here, i think. a new statement from the white house reads, quote, president trump has done nothing wrong. this is a coordinated smear campaign from far-left lawmakers and radical unelected bureaucrats waging war on the constitution. there was no quid pro quo. i mean, first of all, the facts are in here and very clear. it is a quid pro quo. it's true, trump said it wasn't one and then he laid out exactly that's what it was. we should note when they take a slam at career bureaucrats. taylor is a seasoned diplomat, an army veteran and west point graduate serving both republican and democratic presidents since 1985, appointed his ambassadorship, his first one

from president george w. bush and all of that adds up to what makes his testimony so damning tonight. manu raju is out front live on capitol hill. manu, it took him an hour to read these 15 pages and he submitted to nine hours of questions. what more are you learning about what he said? >> reporter: the democrats and republicans are asking him a lot about the essence of what he laid out in this 15-page testimony and more details about exactly what he said and i'm told from various sources that he had a lot of details and he'd been able to corroborate some of this information by the notes that he took and was able to provide some information that gave some members more confidence in what he was saying reflected exactly the truth of what happened. what i'm also hearing is members on both sides of the aisle concerned that his testimony conflicts with gordon sondland, the ambassador to the european union who testified last week that he did have a conversation with president trump, and a brief conversation with president trump and that there was no quid pro quo and he was

not certain yet military aid was leld held up and what bill taylor was saying today in his testimony that gordon sondeland told him that the reason why this was held up is they were waiting by the public declaration by the ukrainian government the investigation into the bidens and the origins of the 2016 campaign and the investigations that could, of course, help the president. he said that gordon sondland made that clear and that president trump told sondland that. what i'm hearing from members of republicans and democrats are saying that sondland should come back, clarify his testimony and they expect probably more questions for him to be sent his way, but there are other things that democrats and particularly alarmed by what taylor said today in his testimony, he said that he was referring to a conversation he had with gordon sondland when he said talking about president trump, he says when a businessman is about to sign a check to someone who owes

him something, he doesn't ask the person to pay before signing the check and president trump is a businessman. >> manu, thank you very much. i want to go out front now to someone that was at the deposition of the top diplomat in the ukraine today, karen bass who serves on house foreign affairs and judiciary committees. i'll say it again, congresswoman, an hour it on read the opening statement, but then nine hours to submit to questions from your team and from republicans' teams and from the lawyers in the room. what else did you learn from bill taylor that is important today? >> well, it is all in the statement which i believe is not confirmed. i thought it was just extremely troubling to hear hill confirm essentially what he said before which is it is crazy the idea that you would hold back foreign assistance for a political favor. i have to tell you, when this is all said and done, ambassador

taylor is a patriot. he is courageous. he was told not to come and testify. he came anyway. i think it was just a very, very critical day in terms of our investigation. >> well, as you point out especially as the white house is slamming career bureaucrats as they call them, he has, as he said served under every administration republican and democratic since 1985. a reagan appointee at that time and served under the reagan administration and his ambassadorship under george w. bush. how important was his deposition to your impeachment case, congresswoman? >> i think it is critically important. what i think is happening here is for the last two and a half years people in the state department have had to live with the administration that disrespected them and didn't take their advice. i am on foreign affairs and i travel to embassies around the world and every time gi to an

embassy i have to sit there and essentially encourage them and tell them that, you know, the american people really support them and we appreciate what they're doing. i think his testimony was critical. i think it just shows once again, you can't just say there's no quid pro quo and do exactly that, and then it's okay. you can't just commit a crime and say that you didn't and then expect it to go away. >> it's interesting you say that because one of the sentences said according to mr. morrison, president trump told mr. president sondland he was not asking for a quid pro quo, period, but he insisted president zelensky say he's opening investigations of biden and that president zelensky should go to a microphone and he should want to do it himself. here's what he just said in the same room as you all day. here's what he said. >> i was in there for ten hours. i can assure you there was no quid pro quo. >> i mean, at some point in time

you can't just say that something is not happening when all of the evidence is right there in front of you. now you know i have a little bit of empathy for my colleague because what could he say? the evidence was clear. the testimony was clear, and so for him to say there was nothing new in a way that's true. we did have the president's chief of staff have a press conference last week and give the perfect example of a quid pro quo, and he told all of us we just have to get over it. you cannot normalize criminal behavior. no one is above the law. >> so i want to ask you one other thing that's come out of all this today, and you know, also as your capacity as the chairwoman of the congressional black caucus, congresswoman bass, president trump tweeted the whole impeachment part and wrote in part, all republicans must remember what they are witnessing here, a lynching. some republicans have defended the president. lindsay graham first said, quote

thsh this is a lynching in a sense, this is un-american and later he asks why anyone would be offended by those comments and i want to play for you what senator graham has said. >> lynching has been seen as someone taking the law in their own hands and out to get somebody for no good reason. yes, african-americans lynched, and other people have been lynched throughout history. >> lindsay graham, a senator from a southern state where thousands of african-americans were lynched should be ashamed of himself. shame on him. he knows better than that. when lynching was happening in the united states and frankly, it wasn't that long ago the state of texas put a man to death a couple of years ago for a lynching that happened in the last ten years, but those were public events, people were invited and they were like sporting, ventses a sporting events and come and watch an african-american hung to deaths and these were

advertised as social events and how dare lindsay graham coming from a state in which thousands of people were lynched to minimize it that way. for the president to take our constitutional responsibility to provide oversight as a co-equal branch of government, to take that and compare that to a hate crime, he has been consistent whenever he faces a day like today he throws a racial bomb to try to divert our attention, but you know, the testimony today was so explosive. even one of his racial bombs will not divert the attention away from a quid pro quo. >> congresswoman bass, thank you very much for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> and next, trump allies now telling the president to accept the fact that he will almost surely be impeached in the house. how did trump react? well, we have new tales on that next. plus the president behind the anonymous new york times op ed, you know the one that went after the president is now coming out with a whole book, a whole lot

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>> now tonight. allies of president trump urging him to accept that he will most likely be impeached by the house and to focus his time onn attacking the impeachment process. this as they wrapped up dramatic testimony. how is the president taking the reality check of people around him stop trying to pretend pelosi will not get there and you should assume it will happen and the vote to impeach you. >> they're saying he needs to be more aggressive and he's not

responding in the way they expected him do, referring to it as a lynching. republicans were frustrated that they were able to frame this impeachment as an unfair process to the president. that's the strategy the white house is trying to take tonight with the press secretary stephanie grisham putting out the statement saying, quote, president trump has done nothing wrong referring essentially to the testimony on capitol hill as a coordinated smear campaign from far-left lawmakers and radical, unelected bureaucrats. that last part is interesting there, erin, because some people on capitol hill are trump appointees who the president has picked to fill the position, but that's how the white house is framing this and those allies pushing him to be more aggressive and aides comes as the president has wrestled with how seriously to take this because initially people were dismissive of it, focusing on how there hadn't been a formal vote on democrats and essentially when they felt they

were good nig weren't going to get that, they continue to defy their vow to defend the inquiry. these diplomats continuing and going to testify for so many hours and that's something they're wrestling with because they don't know exactly what it is that these officials are saying. an indication of how the white house is gearing up for this. the president's legal team is here at the white house going over what their impeachment strategy is going to be. something that the republicans are hoe are hoping that the white house can be more aggressive with. >> i want to go to our political analyst david gregory, and former counsel for national security, kerry cordero and nancy mcaldeny, u.s. ambassador to bulgaria and has known bill taylor for 25 years and republican state senator of nevada, greg bower. i appreciate all of your time. carrie, you had a chance to read

the opening statement and took one hour to read and took nine hours of questioning. how big of a deal was this testimony? >> i think it's an incredibly big deal for a couple of reasons. first, with respect to the issues that are under consideration for impeachment, bill taylor clearly articulated, i think in the way that we've most clearly understood it at this point. the exchange that was on the table. in other words, that the president and his advisers who were doing this secondhand back channel communications with the government of ukraine, they were seeking out political information regarding investigations into the bidens and investigations into the 2016 campaign in exchange for u.s. government security assistance, and then the second piece that i think was devastating from a national security perspective and a foreign policy perspective which should be of concern on a

bipartisan basis is that ambassador taylor's testimony shows that the president was pushing a change in policy with respect to ukraine. that's not an issue for impeachment, but it does show how dramatically and how quickly he is changing the u.s.' role in the world and it's foreign policy towards a country that previously has been considered an ally and someone that we were providing substantial security assistance. >> and as you point out, on a bipartisan supported basis over a very long period of time. >> ambassador, you know bill taylor and i say this statement that just came out from the m e white house that it is a smaer campaign from radical unelected bureaucrats waging war on the u.s. constitution. i suppose that one of those according to the white house is bill taylor. he was first appointed by george w. bush to an ambassadorship. he served under reagan and every president since. he's a west point graduate and served on the 101st airborne in

vietnam and his opening statement was 15 pages and it took him an hour to read. does it surprise you that he kept such detailed notes and so much of his recollections and meetings are in quotes? >> it does not surprise me at all because bill taylor is a very measured and methodical and meticulous professional. you talked about many of the things that he's done. he has for many years been the senior statesman responsible for u.s. foreign assistance. billions of dollars of assistance to afghanistan, to iraq, to the middle east. bill was responsible for all of that over the course of two decades without a single instance of him ever being questioned about a decision that he took or any responsibility that he held. it doesn't surprise me to hear the white house lashing out at him in the same way they lashed out at ivanovich.

he made heroic efforts to fight against this informal and unusual second track of diplomacy that as carrie noted was subverting our strategic interest in ukraine and he made clear there's much more to be uncovered here to include the role that secretary of state mike pompeo has played. >> want to get to that in a moment and there is an exblessiexplicit parts about secretary of state pompeo. bill taylor said in his opening statement that in a call with the omb, the office of management and budget, a staffer exbless italy said president trump personally directed mick mulvaney to halt the aid. he was very explicit. the president of the united states directed this and taylor said there faollowed a series o nsc interagency meetings started at the staff level and quickly met the level of cabinet secretaries. at every meeting, the unanimous

conclusion was that the security assistance should be resumed, the hold lifted and at one point the defense department was asked to perform an analysis of the effectiveness with the assistance within a day, the defense department came back with the determination that the assistance of effective and should be resumed. trump defying his own defense department, his foreign service, democrat dechls a democrats, and republicans a country under physical attack on russia because he wanted an investigation into joe biden. >> erin, i think this testimony by ambassador taylor makes all of that very, very clear and shows how illogical this approach led by the president and facilitated by others was. it had everyone from career officials s officials at the state department to d.o.t. and obviously, our foreign partners including ukrainians just stunned by what was going on. nobody could explain it and nobody could believe it, and it is clear. i don't care what the white

house and its supporters may try to say, it is absolutely clear from this testimony that there was a quid pro quo, and that the details, more details may come out to present a fuller picture and this, look, there are certainly republicans on the hill who will go down swinging and will support the president to the bitter end, but i have to believe that today's events are causing a lot of thoughtful republicans on the hill to start wondering how far can we go in supporting this president? >> david gregory, he lays out, right -- president trump insisted president zelensky to go to the microphone himself and say that he is going to open an investigation of biden and 2016 election interference. he continues to say this is about ambassador sondland saying he had talked to president zellen zelensky and told him that although this was not a quid pro

quo, if president zelensky, did not clear things up in public we could be at a stalemate. they seem to be hanging everything, it's not a quid pro quo, but let's just show you the quid pro quo. >> right. because the language that he usees in his testimony is the president would sayings well, you know, he should want to clear this up. he should want to take this particular stand. it's in his interest. i think the quid pro quo is obvious. what is so striking about bill taylor's testimony and of course, the white house can't touch him with their garbage spin that they put out. it's a fuller picture of what was going on. we began with the whistle-blower and that was what was just readily visible from atop the water. underneath, the fuller scope of this iceberg is how uncomfortable career diplomats were, even the president's political appointees with tying the aid to digging up dirt on a

political political opponent and to have an irregular channel of foreign policy and the non-official being run by rudy giuliani and his conspiracies about ukraine and he had an audience of one. the president who was willing to dictate official policy because of those feelings. >> all of you stay with me because i want to talk about something significant that happened today and that is mitch mcconnell breaking with trump, and i want to share exactly what the top senate republican is saying tonight. plus as the impeachment investigation intensifies, what are voters saying?

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breaking news. as the most damning testimony against trump trickles out tonight, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is not rushing to the president's side. in fact, he directly is contradicting the president. >> the president has said that you told him that his phone call with the ukrainian president was perfect and innocent. do you believe that the president -- >> i haven't -- we've not had any conversations on that subject. ? so he was lying about that? >> you'll have to ask him. i don't recall any conversations with the president about that phone call. >> of course, the president explicitly he had talked to, you know, mcconnell about it who had said it was perfect. it didn't stop there. mcconnell calling trump out for the impeachment inquiry and comparing it to a lynching. >> given the history in our country i would not compare this to a lynching. that was an unfortunate choice of words.

>> mcconnell also putting forward a strongly worded resolution today on top of all that to block trump's bid to pull u.s. troops out of syria and an even tougher resolution than the one that pass said the house of representatives. everyone's back with me. greg, you add this up, refusing to say that he told the president that the call was perfect. you'd have to ask him. saying he wouldn't have used those words to talk about the impeachment inquiry, putting out a resolution on the senate floor that is tougher than the one in the house that already had done part of the job. what does that say to you about senator mcconnell? what is he trying to say? >> it tells me that the majority leader will only go so far with support of this president and with a specific misstatement like the one he heard referenced earlier he's just not going to lie about it. there are many house republicans who if the president said it was snowing in washington today they would all agree with limb ahim w it was snowing in washington.

mitch mcconnell is simply not going to jeopardize his own credibility to support this president, and i think increasingly, he's not going to be alone. as i referenced earlier, a lot of nervous republicans on capitol hill rate now who are very, very concerned with what the president has been doing and saying, particularly this ukrainian deal and they're worried and they're nervous and they're not going support him forever. >> kerry, since becoming president, senator mcconnell has defended trump a lot, right? but that was want always the case and that's why today, the question is how significant is it? this is an interview that did i with senator mcconnell in 2016 and trump was a presumed nominee and he couldn't decide a case involving trump because of his mexican heritage. here's what mcconnell said about trump. >> he's now one of the two people that are going to be president of the united states of america and he needs to begin to act like a presidential candidate. i have listed all of last week,

every occasion of how much i differed with donald trump, particularly attacking people on the basis of their ethnicity. totally inappropriate. >> i mean, that's a different person, but carrie, today he cracked the door. could we start to see more of that, mitch mcconnell where he distances himself from the president? >> i hope so, and i think he is putting some distance between himself and the president, and i think it mostly concerns national security. he called the president's withdrawal, his chaotic, rash decision to withdraw from syria, a grave, strategic mistake. that's how mitch mcconnell described the president's decision to withdraw from syria, and now coupled with this new information that the president sort of the clarity of the information that has been coming out that the president has been using his foreign policy abilities in order to receive political information from a

foreign government. i really think that mitch mcconnell and other national security-minded republicans who are in congress need to take a real serious look at whether they are going continue to abide the president's chaotic and ill conceived and really irrational national security and foreign policy decision making because according to ambassador taylor's testimony today the concern is that he's making decisions that are not in america's interest and that's something that mitch mcconnell cares about. >> a quick bullet point, justin omash, a former republican told me last night, at best one or two republicans in the house would vote for impeachment. do you think it would be more? >> i don't know that it would be more. i don't know that the politics have changed and i think mitch mcconnell has an interesting window into those politics. carrie is exactly right. i think not just the poor

decision on syria and the substance, but it's the chaotic decision making has emboldened republicans who are national security-minded republicans to say this is completely out of bounds, and completely wrong, and it has given them more room to be critical of impeachment. it's not that hard to distance yourself from the president talking about his situation and comparing it to lynching. that's an easy thing to be critical of the president of, but i think there are more republicans in the senate who are more troubled across the board than what the president is doing that they can use syria as a way to be critical and you also have to look at the president's standings in the poll and the more popular impeachment becomes and the removal becomes, the more the republicans believe they do not have to cow tow to the president. >> and ambassador, i want to ask you, today we learned the anonymous senior trump administration official who wrote the now-famous claiming to be part of the resistance inside the trump administration has now

written a whole book and it's coming out next month called "a warning" and it says there will be all kind of more information in there. more behind the scenes things about donald trump and his presidency. ambassador, what does it is a to you, the significance of this, that this person didn't stop with the op ed and they've now gone and written a whole book and they didn't take an advance for it and they'll be done eighth significantly from the royalties to organizations. >> it says two things to me. it says that people are obviously so troubled by what is happening. what has happened throughout the course of this administration where institutions are being destroyed, our foreign policy is in a shambles as colin powell said recently and really across the country, people are saying are democratic institutions being undermined. so i understand why people who are working in the administration are so troubled by it, but i would suggest that rather than submitting an anonymous book that they should follow suit as patriots like

bill taylor and marie ivanovich and have identified themselves and not as the whistle-blower who deserves legal protection, but you know, this anonymity that this author is claiming is just feeding further into the fear. >> right. it also can feed trump's narrative, as well, right? he won't stand up and say it's weak. that's a good point that this person would just put their name out there thank you all so very much. >> next, a cnn poll showing growing support for impeachment and does this move the needle for trump supporters. michelle obama, michael bloomberg and some of the names that the democrats are throwing out 2020 contenders and one of them, give it up. why is there anxiety within the party tonight?

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tonight, support for impeachment growing. halff half of americans now say president trump should be impeached and that's a new high in cnn polling. is it moving the needle for trump supporters at all? miguel marquez is out front. >> reporter: aaron shats, fourth-generation farmer in iowa. >> this is corn that we've chopped and you feed it to the cows and -- >> his world, a wife, two kids and 1500 acres of corn and

soybeans, milk and beef cows, two dogs and a goat named gus. he's one of many voters in this northeastern iowa countsy who supported obama twice and then voted for donald trump. >> i don't see anybody in the democratic field that i'm too comfortable with yet. we have to wait and see who comes out. >> you're open to a democrat? >> i'm open and not by a lot. >> his concerns, impeachment doesn't rate. >> does impeachment play into the feeling about him? >> no. not yet. to me, the things seem kind of minor as of yet. >> minor in that all politicians do this sort of stuff? >> i'm sure they all do it. you think they can dig up dirt on everyone, you know? >> business owner barb gardner also voted for obama and then trump. something she says she probably won't do again, but not because of impeachment. >> i kind of still like him, but

yet i don't like what he says. i don't like his -- his -- the way he presents himself. >> it's voters like these that help propelled donald trump into the white house. howard county is unique, flipping from obama in 2012 to trump in 2016, by more than any other county in the country. a 41-point swing. >> what's it like to be a democrat in howard county iowa these days? >> a lot of people hiding or not talking about it. >> the chair of the democratic party in howard county says impeachment complicates her job of convincing independents to vote democratic. >> they actually bring something that's criminal and worthy of impeachment. i can see the people, those independents to go, okay, there really is something. >> trade approximatepolicy will in howard. impeachment right now. >> it all becomes a home, and

background noise and we've almost come to expect it. >> now, i expected the chairs of the republican and democratic parties to be a lot more confident about what was going to happen here in november 2020, neither of them were. we spoke to a lot of democrats and independents and republicans about their thoughts on impeachment, they think that what the president is accused of may be shady. it may be slimy, bithut they dot think at this point that it amounts to an impeachable offense. >> miguel, thank you very much. fantastic reporting there to county. a sense of what's next, there are more than a dozen democrats running for president, right? you just heard a few people weighing in on whether they'd vote for them and now party insiders are asking is there someone else? and jeannie is how the impeachment investigation is leaving so many tongues tied up in knots. >> i said there was no quid pro

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finance and multistate prime carry campaign, and persistent questions about senator elizabeth warren's viability in the general election and skepticism that mayor pete buttigieg of south bend can broaden his appeal beyond white voters, democratic leaders are fretting about who is the race longing for a white knight to enter the race. >> you've seen the reporting here and in the that's where they're turning. michael bloomberg. john kerry. even michelle obama. this is who they throw out there? >> yes, there is a lot of anxiety, erin. my reporter jonathan martin spent days talk to democrats in the establishment, in the party in labor. and the reality is and see there is real concern. now, look, we have seen this about before. we saw it process wilting in 1992 when there was worries

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by the way i give maryland drew oh for saying it on the record. i can see it, feel it and marry it. mayor, can you see it, feel it and hear it? >> listen, obviously with due respect to the reporting, yes there are democrats out there that are antsy about our choices. but the truth is i understand their antsiness. we are running against one of the most unprecedented characters in american history. up is down and down is up with donald trump. it's extremely difficult to predict how the american voters are going to respond. but i would simply caution democrats. let's trust the process. we have a primary process for a reason. we've got a dynamic slate of candidates out there. i know we want to sort of cherry pick what we think is the best offering thaup we have. but that's what the primary process is about. these voters going to the poll they want to win more than anything. >> mayor does it wore worry you

though that democrats telling jonathan martin that they're desperately looking for another name? i mean, they have 19 people. they have a lot of incredibly qualified people with incredible resumes, whether you like them the politically or not you can't dispute that. >> sure. >> and yet you got all the people big donors saying please dear god give us somebody else. does that worry you. >> we had six million people fewer vote in in' 12. let's focus on the building the apparatus and organization. what i'm doing here in florida with the rental strags and reengagement effort. what republicans do. they didn't predict donald trump was going to be president -- the nominee but they built a party that was designed to deliver a victory, a win. and so for all of the donors whomever the big puba considering putting somebody else in the race, i would suggest let's fund and focus on

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here is jeanne. >> it's enough to make you say, quid pro no! >> a kwrpd. >> there was no kwrpd. >>s in the quid and that's the pro. >> hitting the missing quo. >> what the constant bam barredment. >> it was kwrpd. that's all you heard about. >> trump supporters even know to join in. >> that's what you call quid pro quo. >> though president trump on occasion. >> there is no pro quo. >> forgets the quid. maybe that's why he had it on a note card the other day. >> harmed with a handwritten note read in part no quid pro quo. >> quid pro quo is from latin meaning something for something. think of it as you scratch my back, i'll scratch yours. >> quid pro quo. >> i tell you things you tell me

things. >> but there is something about trying to say. >> president trump ordered a quid pro crow. >> make a pro said quid prooh, oh. >> he don't that was quid cocoa. >> sfunling not just once. >> say there is no quid pro crow. >> but twice. >> don't krier c ri id pro quo. >> forget the three stooges, rudy president trump and attorney got labeled quid, proand quo in in cartoon. steven koeshlt pretended he was the president he is a acting chief of staff. >> my point is we're not quid amateur quos. we're quid pro quo ready good at it. >> this guying i don't think we shall hold the money that's a quid pro joy. >> gunts heit. >> maybe every time we should we

had hear this we should say gunts heit. >> gunts hide. >> that's good. >> there was a quid pro quo. >> gunts heit. jeanne moss cnn new york. >> thanks so much for joining us, anderson starts now. good evening. it's entirely possible that this day may turn out to be one of the most sequential days in the impeachment inquiry as well as possibly the presidency. testimony on capitol hill behind closed doors is being called that significant by some who heard it. the country's top diplomat in ukraine told congress -- told congress -- by the way a west point graduate a vietnam vet who served for 50 years. he revealed in great detail and no uncertain teams that presiden trump pushed his people to fush for a quid pro quo with the president of ukraine. military aide and white house visit