ines de la cuetara has the details. >> reporter: good morning. bill taylor testifying under subpoena that the order to withhold military aid to ukraine came directly from the president and that in exchange the ukrainian leader would have to agree publicly to investigate the president's political opponents. overnight vice president pence insisting there was no quid pro quo when president trump asked the leader of ukraine to investigate his political opponents. >> the american people can read the transcript of the phone call the president had with president zelensky. and they will see there was no quid pro quo. >> reporter: but the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine, bill taylor, telling a different story during his testimony before congress. >> in my ten short months in congress, it's not even noon, right? this is my most disturbing day. >> reporter: there were you audible gasps as taylor was testifying. he was given no official reason why millions of dollars in foreign aid was held up but that gordon sondland told trump that he wanted the ukrainian pres

trevor and elizabeth. >> ines de la cuetara in washington. ines, thank you. >>> high level trade talks between the u.s. and china are set to begin this thursday, but there might already be a snag. this morning bloomberg reports beijing is reluctant to agree to a broad trade deal. the report says china will not budge on a number of major demands from the trump administration including reforms to china's industrial policy. >>> and also developing right now, more than 100 people have died and thousands have been injured in anti-government protests in iraq. protesters are demanding more jobs and a crackdown on corruption. government officials are pushing back against claims that security forces opened fire directly on demonstrators. >>> we turn now to a mystery in dallas where a key witness in the recent murder trial of former police officer amber guyger has turned up dead. joshua brown was shot outside his apartment and now a large reward is being offered in the case as we learn new information about brown's past. >> reporter: this morning, an u

ines de la cuetara, abc news, washington. >>> washington, d.c.is getting a diversion from the impeachment hearing, celebrating the city's first world series championship since 1924. >> 3-2. there it is! the washington nationals are world champions for the first time in franchise history! >> last night the nationals beat the astros 6-2 in game seven of the world series. the nats are the world world series champ in mlb history to win every road game during the series. the franchise started as the montreal expos in 1969 before moving to d.c. in 2005. >> are you happy? you were asleep. >> i'm -- congrats to them. i don'tod >> wgo. >> good! >> they thought they were going to lose. they came back. it's a great story. >> any one of those players could walk by me, i wouldn't know a thing. >> me neither, but that's okay. >> now for a deal that's out of this world. >> kind of. so, get this, all u.s. jetblue flights are $31 today because it's october 31st. >> that's not true. >> they're not. i just looked. >> there are some. >> there are some. i'm looking a

abc's ines de la cuetara has all the details. , good morning. >> reporter: good morning, janai and kenneth. house democrats are confident that they will achieve near unity today as they vote on a new resolution outlining rules for making hearings public and for releasing deposition transcripts. this morning, house democrats gearing up to take the impeachment inquiry to a whole new level as the full house prepares to vote on a resolution today laying out the rules for next steps in the investigation including procedures for public hearings. congressional republicans still opposing the process. >> speaker pelosi has initiated a bizarre process. >> reporter: but they're struggling to explain the substance coming out of those hearings that's raising even more questions about the phone call that kicked off the inquiry. the white house has insisted it released a complete transcript of the conversation between president trump and the president of ukraine. >> word for word, comma for comma, done by people that do it for a living. we had a

. >> abc's ines de la cuetara joins us with the latest from washington. good morning, ines. >> reporter: good morning, kenneth and elizabeth. well, the president's decision comes as his own military leaders advised him against it over fears it could destabilize the region. overnight new images of u.s. forces withdrawing from their positions in northern syria after president trump's sudden decision to pull out of the region arguing he's making good on a campaign promise. >> turkey, syria, let them take care of it. let them take care of it. we want to bring our troops back home. >> reporter: the white house green-lighting a turkish incursion that could wipe out u.s.-backed kurdish forces in the area. the kurds have been america's strongest ally in the fight against isis. turkey wants the land to send hundreds of thousands of syrian refugees back and views the kurds as terrorist insurgents. >> why are you siding with an authoritarian leader and not our kurdish allies? >> well, i'm not siding with anybody. we've been in syria for many years. you know, syria wa

. >> abc's ines de la cuetara here with the reaction and fallout. ines, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, kenneth and kaylee. bill taylor testified that the order to withhold military aid came directly from the president and that in exchange the ukrainian leader would have to agree publicly to investigate trump's political opponents. overnight vice president pence insisting there was no quid pro quo when president trump asked the leader of ukraine to investigate his political opponents. >> the american people can read the transcript of the phone call the president had with president zelensky, and they will see there was no quid pro quo. >> reporter: but the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine, bill taylor, telling a different story during his testimony before congress. >> in my ten short months in congress, it's not even noon, right, and this is my most disturbing day in congress so far. >> reporter: democrats in the room say there were audible gasps as taylor detailed the white house pressure campaign on ukraine. taylor says he was given no official