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>> and josh letterman, that takes you back to your reporting. you've done important work on the timeline reporting today. and it seems that colonel vindman's testimony is lining up with your timeline. >> reporter: that's right. we're learning more from this new reporting about how early these alarm bells were going off inside the national security council's, really at the top level with john bolton, the former national security adviser being briefed by fiona hill, after meeting with zelenski and his advisers as they were preparing to take office. this is the period in between when zelensky was elected and he was inaugurated. and he was already feeling the pressure from giuliani, to change up the board of nafta gas. fiona hill was told about the involvement of fruman and parnas, those two florida businessmen who were also trying to dig up dirt on the vice president's son and have also now been indicted for alleged campaign finance violations. and fiona hill at the white house was also told in may about gordon sondland making unsolicited overchurs

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covering the state department, nbc news national political reporter, josh letterman. also with me, third-way vice president and former house intel committee staffer, mika o'yang. peter, did we misinterpret or did he basically just admit to everything that the democrats have been trying to uncover? >> reporter: well, to be clear, there's a little bit of a nuance here, right? he did acknowledge, though not using the word quid pro quo, that there was, in effect, a quid pro quo. that money was withheld. military assistance was withheld from ukraine basically dependent upon them investigating what took place in 2016. the president trying to get to the heart of the speconspiracy theory, suggesting that ukraine played some role alongside the democrats, in effect, to try to tip the scales of the election away from president trump. he said that there was not a quid pro quo and that there was nothing to do with the biasdens there. that that was not one of the issues that was at play here. but the bottom line, the most important takeaway from what we saw in what was really a stu

we're going to bring in josh letterman with the new reporting. i gave the big headlines. fill in the blanks, josh. >> yeah, hallie, i've been talking to lawmakers part of that hearing saying that fiona hill was a perfect witness. that she shincredible recall. keep in mind, fiona hill is not some outsider. she had a front row seat to you of this. what she had to tell lawmakers, according to a person in that room for the hearing yesterday was pretty damning. she said that after she and john bolton learned about what was happening with this shadow effort on yooushg, that john bolton referred to the whole thing as a drug deal. he in fact told fiona hill you need to go and report this to the top lawyer at the national security council. he also referred to rudy giuliani as a hand grenade, suggesting that, you know, he was not someone who was going to be playing a constructive role in this. so, very critical testimony for her. we have also been reaching out for rudy giuliani to get his response to those critical comments. and we spoke to nbc's kristen welker telling kristen, tha

. >> joining us now nbc news political reporter josh letterman, political investigations reporter tom hamburger and daniel litman. let's start with you on this, josh. it is a busy week ahead. tell us what you're watching from the three that we mentioned that will be giving testimony. >> two big names to watch this week as the impeachment proceedings gain steam on the hill. the first is eu ambassador who rick perry was just talking about there. his name is all over that whistleblower complaint. and he seems in some of the text messages that were released to be playing a pretty active role in trying to advance the president's goal of getting ukraine to investigate his political opponents. not only that, but also shutting down in real back on that. i want to show you one of the text messages released in which the top u.s. diplomat says as i said on the phone, i think it is crazy to with hold security assistance. he is the political appointee saying i believe you are incorrect about president trump's intentions. the president has been crystal clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. then he s

. >> joining me now is josh letterman. good to have you with us. let's break this down a little bit. i'm on the fence on how to see this. is the fact that hunter biden is embroiled in this controversy is going to resign, is that by political calculations what president trump wanted? this narrative has taken ahold enough for the former vice president and his son feeling the need, the pressure, the urge to address it? >> the biden campaign is insisting that nothing ever wrong happened here and this whole thing is a conspiracy being pushed by trump. certainly the president said a lot of things about hunter biden and his father that have been patently false. the fact they have to take all of these measures to push back on this story indicates they realize this is a big political problem for them. >> so this point do you think the way joe biden has handled this issue with the ongoing saga with ukraine and china, do his supporters and poll numbers suggest that he has this under control or do we see it taking a toll on him? >> his supporters have been pre

joining me is nbc news national political reporter josh letterman. good morning. >> reporter: hi. >> what are the house committees likely to ask him about? what is their priority? >> reporter: they will wand to hear from ambassador sondland what he knew and understood what the president's intentions were on ukraine. if you will recall ambassador sondland comes up not only in that whistle-blower complaint but also in those text messages that ambassador kurt volker handed over to congress last week and congress then released. he is the one that is seen in those text messages basically shutting down the top u.s. diplomate in ukraine when he expresses concern and says we cannot be linking u.s. military assistance to whether ukraine is going to agree to investigate the president's political opponents. in those text messages gordon sondland, the ambassador to the european union, trump appointees, long time trump donor he basically says that's not what's going on here, let's take it off text message. democrats eager to hear from him whether he really does t

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the hope still is to wrap this thing up by the end of the year, katie. >> jeff benefit it, josh letterman, ashley parker, thank you very much. >>> and elizabeth warren appears to have scared her 2020 rivals. the theory stands that everyone gangs up on the front runner. the warren campaign has lots to be happy about today. the massachusetts senator faced criticism on everything from her healthcare policy to president trump's twitter account. and she emerged mostly unscathed according to those who analyze this stuff. >> your 60, senator, to have a plan for everything, except this -- >> when i called on twitter to suspend donald trump's account that you did not agree and i would urge you to join me. >> you are making republican talking points right now in this room. >> senator warren is more focused on being punitive or pitting some part of the country against the other. >> joining me now former ohio nbc -- not from ohio, not former ohio, nbc political reporter ali vitale and washington post reporter dave weigel. ali, you watched the debate last night up close or at least from a room next to

let's go to josh letterman who can shed some light on what happened. there was a conversation with these three people and then you have news on what happened after that. >> reporter: yeah, we now know that ambassador to the eu gordon sondland was in frequent contact directly with president trump about ukraine, including in that period of time after he got that text message from bill taylor the acting ambassador in ukraine saying it is crazy for us to be linking military assistance to ukraine with help for a political campaign. four or five hours had passed before sondland responded to mr. taylor and in that time we now can report that sondland phoned the president, spoke to him about ukraine and then later responded and that is the message in which he kind of shuts down bill taylor, says i think that you are incorrect about the president's intentions, he's been crystal clear no quid pro quo and he also says i think that we should take this conversation off line, stop putting it in text message. >> and so let's just make something clear. the administrat

nbc's josh letterman for us, national political reporter for nbc. thank you, sir. let's bring in our panel, woeshl reporter and contributor carol lenig, cia. analyst and director of the national security council under president obama, also an msnbc national security contributor, ned price, and "daily beast" columnist and analyst jonathan alter. there have subpoenas that have been issued to the white house. and what will happen next? >> a lot of things could happen. but what the white house has signaled and started signaling in the middle of last week is that they are not going to be turning over any documents and not consider doing so until the house takes a vote to begin an actual impeachment proceeding, to have a vote to start that inquiry. and in a way the white house is on solid ground because you can -- it's easier to make demands when you're in that posture, the congress has that position. but on the other hand, it's one of the -- this white house's anyway constant attempts to stall any efforts to demand records from within. it's sort of -- its sort of secret

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let's bring in josh letterman. i read a ton of text. i know it's a lot for people to digest that the hour of the day. take us through who these players are and what you found significant about what was released last night in these committees. >> we've got these in a document dump and we've been going through them all night to analyze them. what they show is that this effort by trump to get the ukrainians to get involved in investigating the bidesens was bigger than giuliani. it involved a handful of people and really senior diplomats at the state department. there's not a lot of insinuation about what they were talking about, it's stunning to see it laid out in cold hard print. you see kurt volker who was the special envoy for ukraine until he abruptly resigned in the wake of all of this. as well as the u.s. ambassador to the european union, trump done were no was appointed to that position talking about how they can get the ukrainians to launch this investigation and specifically tying it to whether president zelensky would get an invi

but they are backing voices so just explain to us all the impact of the potential impact of the letterman amendment sure all of a memory would mean that we wouldn't actually complete the brakes at process until all of the legislation been passed i suppose it's like when you do a deal and you say we agree heads of terms ok great that's done work out the details later the letter in agreement says no no none of it will be applied and therefore would have to remain members of the whilst all of the legislation the subsidiary legislation got passed the trouble with that as you rightly had pointed out in your piece there's no guarantee for us that the european union would give us an extension but i suppose the part of the problem it is that some of the tory m.p.'s you've been skeptical about his intentions should think that that essentially this is a trojan could be a sort of trojan horse as a way of getting no deal through. by bipes of kicking the can down the road and then and then saying that we can't we can't work out a deal during transitions or we'll have it and no deal in 20 twentieth's o

also a former staff member of the house intelligence committee, and josh letterman who reported new details about the communication between president trump and gordo gordon sondland. what was it that you want today concentrate on? >> it is easy to ask. and the nature of all of his questions. but when i was thinking about that question coming, i think that the best question is why aren't you the whistle-blower. how could you stand by when this was happening and not say what we hear from one dex. i think it is crazy to do with a quid pro quo with an ally at war with our greatest adversary. >> and your reaction to him sending that letter saying no cooperation, no witnesses, no documents, your impeachment inquire i have unconstitutional according to the white house council? >> yeah, i think they're just making official what they have been doing for three years. they have been stonewalling and obstructing any investigation. they detail that in extraordinary links. and i think he left it to us to take the ball, and i think it was a justice department policy that says you can't do that. we're foll

we're going to dig deeper with josh letterman. he has been looking through all of this, politico is calling these texts smoking texts. you tell us what stands out to you. >> two big take aways that we have been topouring through all night. this was not just related to rudy giuliani they were working to aadvance to the goal to getting the ukrainians to launch this investigation into the bidens and the president's other political opponents. they were working with the ukrainian aide to make sure they had specific language they wanted to come out of the president's mouth when he would make a statement vowing this. tom nickels, columnist, and christoph christopher dickey. the president of the united stat states. i watched andrew mccabe on tv last night and he said he has investigated these things for years and you almost never see a quid pro quo so clearly on a phone call as this. politico calling these the motorcycling texts, does he really have wiggle room. >> we should stop texting about this, oh, you think? what kind of political -

neil: even on the letterman show, his wife, we don't really have to go into that, honey, but he did. in a lot of ways. he's done more things than i think he ever thought was possible growing up in chicago. neil: not too shabby. i would be remiss if i didn't do the big story a few minutes away, the federal reserve. i'm more interested in whether powell in his remarks, we know the president zings him, but i like to think powell in his own sort of quiet way zings the president. he always likes to talk this 10, 11-year recovery, you can thank the federal reserve. clearly, zinging the president saying it didn't start with you. how do you think he handles this? >> yeah. i think he does look for subtle ways to assert independence. neil: passive-aggressive. >> maybe some of that. it's a delicate game he has there. i think it's also interesting to see what he says about the economy, because we think of this as largely his moment to tell us about the course of interest rates, but obviously, they get a lot of valuable data and very early data, and his read on the economy and how soft it is or r

thanks to josh letterman in washington, d.c. thank you. >>> the president's legal team is looking at its options and to be frank, there are few. following a dwev stating defeat in court over trump's taxes a federal appeals court rejected president trump's bid to block the house democrats from receiving eight years' worth of his financial records. those financial records won't be released immediately and president trump can still ask the supreme court to take his appeal. joining me now is pulitzer prize tax expert david k. johnson and author of "the making of donald trump." thank you for being here. how president's tax returns? >> well, in sis a big step forward in a case that we shouldn't have ever had, because there's no question that congress has the right to see this. they may, on the trump side, try further delays by trying to get an end-bank, entire panel of judges in the court of appeals to hear the case, but trump will not win this case. we should be disturbed, however, that a trump-appointed judge, the judge who holds th

joining me now, geoff bennett, josh letterman, also with me mika oyang and former deputy of state mike fuchs. what is the significance of the president of the united states? >> there's significance on two front. the fact the ambassador was here at all is itself significant. it was an open question of whether or not she would show up. when you saw her make her way in, she was accompanied by her outside legal team, not a state department counsel, not a state department lawyer. so the fact that she is testifying despite this white house edict that no one comply with this impeachment inquiry is hugely significant and it could open the flood gates for current and former officials to do just what she's doing today. the substance of her testimony is also significant because she paints a picture of her departure being the direct result of president trump himself putting pressure on the state department to get rid of her. she says clearly in her opening statement, which we obtained is they are number number two made clear to her that even though you've done nothing wrong, you need to be on the

would be beyond ridiculous it would be i mean this is internal planning document from appropriate letterman just to be clear but they're part of the remain conspiracy as well let me tell you what this analysis was based on this just quotes from the document it's not my view if between 50 and 85 percent of haulage companies were unable to fill in french customs forms not only on the 1st day but for 3 months and then half of them were they able to fill in these forms for 6 months then we'd have problems with the french customs and they did their own customs have been handing out forms to lower drivers for the last 6 months and this was why why would. you say there won't be any disruption after no deal right now i'm not saying that i'm going to be if there's any disruption to be fairly small one of the very briefly respond that there will be a small disruption well i mean look the government is as you say appropriate see government i say listen to the actual government which has no interest in ramping up the dangers that no deal they are saying that terrible things can happen we have a g.t. re

trump acting like a mob boss, has got this clip recirculating of him on this very stage with david lettermanars ago. dave asked him if he had ever interacted with organized crime. >> i have met on occasion a few of those people. they happen to be very nice people. >> stephen: oh, yes, they're very nice people. that's why they have nicknames like "tony 'two charities' lucchese" and "jimmy 'race for the cure' gambino." ( laughter ) so trump fancies himself a don, but the only mobster trump is even remotely close to is fredo. >> i can handle things, i'm smart! not like everybody says! like dumb, i'm smart, and i want respect! >> stephen: actually, i'd like to apologize. that wasn't fair. to fredo. ( laughter ) fredo's casino didn't go bankrupt. ( cheers and applause ) we've got a great show for you tonight. sir paul mccartney is here. but when we come back, jon, oliver interviews me. ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) i was on the fence about changing from a manual to an electric toothbrush. but my hygienist said going electric could lead to way cleaner teeth. she said, get the one inspir

diplomat to ukraine, bill taylor letterman, text, as i said on the phone, i think it is crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. sondland responds, the president has been crystal clear, no quid quo pros of any kind, the president is trying to evaluate if ukraine will adopt transparency and reform the president promised during his campaign. this morning, house republicans called on the democrats to release the full transcript from thursday's session with ambassador kurt volker. ambassador volker is important, he is linked connective tissue between the ukrainian officials and the trump administration. here is the republicans from earlier today. >> when you have a press release being drafted by our democrat colleagues, cherry picking text messages, when the full text of ambassador volker's testimony last week would have exonerated this president, let's release it. we sound like we are pissed as we stand here, it is because we are. the american people are getting screwed by enraged liberal base demanding impeachment the, they don't care what the crime is. >> a

nbc's josh letterman is live in indianola. josh, what can we expect there? front-runner in the race, one of two front-runners alongside joe biden. trying to show in indianola when it comes to ground game and strength on the ground, she owns iowa. it is true when it comes to operation size, she does have one of the strongest operations alongside pete buttigieg. we have fresh numbers just today from the elizabeth warren campaign on that. in addition to the 19 offices she has across iowa, elizabeth warren now has more than 100 staffers on the ground here in iowa. with that new-found front-runner status comes a new target on her back from her rivals. we saw in the debate those questions about how she's going to pay for her health care plan. that's been continuing. as you showed in those clips a few minutes ago, both pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar taking swipes at elizabeth warren today. when elizabeth warren speaks in a couple of hours at simpson college, you can see the folks lining up behind me, we expect she may get fresh questions about that from voters on

let's cross over to josh letterman. she has a plan for everything.sh out one area where she's getting criticized. what is her plan for her medicare for all plan? >> yeah, that's right, ayman. this is an issue that's been dogging her campaign for several days now. how is she going to pay for this? is it going to involve raising taxes? we know some of her rivals ganged up oen her about it during that debate. it's continued to be an issue. several of the other candidates questioning how she's going to pay for it during the sunday shows. elizabeth warren, her first event, said she'll roll out a new plan explaining how she will pay for it. i pressed her after that event and whether it will make sense on waiting for details. >> shouldn't you have decided how you're going to pay for the plan before you released the plan. >> i've been working on the details for a long time. >> is it fiscally responsible to release a plan before you figure out how you're going to pay for it? >> i think there have been many estimates for what the cost is going to be and many d

member of the house intelligence committee, a white house correspondent for the pbs news hour, josh letterman, nbc news national political reporter and former u.s. attorney joyce vance. congressman, let me start with you on this news. in the last hour we read from the statement there, mick mulvaney is saying there was no held up for anything to do with the server, the 2016 campaign. you heard what he said earlier. can you square those two statements in any way? >> no, i think he was telling us what happened in a candid moment earlier today and there was a brazen admission. it wasn't just an admission, it was one of those deal with it, get over it types of issues. and so i think that's really what happened. it really resembles that text exchange back between, you know, i think sondland and taylor. remember when taylor says are you conditioning the military aid based on political investigations and he says call me, and then he comes up with some answer later on. this is the type of situation that leads one to believe there's more there there in the whistle-blower complaint. and we need to pursu

our own josh letterman is reporting tonight, "lawmakers plan to grill gordon sondland on thursday about a private discussion he had with top ukrainian officials in the white house in which he explicitly mentioned the ukrainian gas company linked to hunter biden amid negotiations over granting ukraine's new president an audience with president donald trump." that's a lot. and here with us to talk about it tonight, shannon pettypiece, a veteran journalist and senior white house reporter for nbc news digital. along with jill colvin, white house reporter for the associated press. welcome back to the both of you. and shannon, let's not waste time. let's go directly to speaking english. what's the guessing on the ambassador? is he going to take one for the team? or is he going to tell the truth? because i don't imagine you can do both. >> well, he is, or at least was at one point, a supporter of the president. a donor. he was put into this position as ambassador to the eu. and then even though the ukraine is not part of the eu that was added to his portfolio presumably because the president t

letterman even dreamed up ten other anthony weiner pseudonyms. >> he's joined by pierre delecto in there donald trump is enshrined with three. >> david dennison, is that an alias for president donald trump? >> young donald trump was known for calling reporters pretending to be a spokesman for himself. >> what's your first name? >> john. >> john. >> john barren and pierre delecto have been rough on each other. >> donald trump is a phony, a fraud. >> romney choked like a dog, he went. >> the bullying, the greed, the showing off. >> he was begging for my endorsement. i could have said, mitt, drop to your knees. he would have dropped to his knees. >> maybe only if you called him pierre delecto, jeanne moos cnn. >> oh, yeah. >> new york. >> thank you for joining us, anderson starts now. >>> good evening, all roads lead to putin. that is what house speaker nancy pelosi famously said about president trump. tonight there's breaking news on what could be yet another road. "the washington post" tonight reporting on conversations the president had with vladimir putin and hungarian prime minister.

joining me, nbc national news political reporter, joshua letterman. also with me, "new york times" chief white house correspondent, peter baker, jake sherman and former u.s. attorney, joyce vance. josh, i'm going to put the two texts up on the screen between sondland and taylor. bill taylor says he thinks it is crazy as he said on the phone, crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. five hours later in a markedly different tone, much more formal, sondland says bill, i believe you were inkrek about president trump's intentions. the president has been clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. the president is trying to evaluate whether you crane is going to adopt the reforms president zelensky promised. i suggest we stop the back and forth by text if you have still have concerns, i recommend you give lisa kenna a call to discuss them directly. thanks. josh, again, a kimpbt taupe. some different tone. some called this a cya text. your new reporting shows that this ambassador had a phone conversation with the president between t

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josh letterman, and natasha bertram. josh, let me start with you.a bunch of people testify this week and just a little bit of breaking news now about one of the individuals who testified, a state department official george kent about the fact that rudy giuliani lobbied the state department to grant a visa to the very same corrupt ukrainian prosecutor that biden pushed to oust, is that right? >> that's right, chris. there have been some rumors going around washington for several days about this. and aerocolleagues at cnn have locked down this story tonight. and what they're reporting is that back in january rudy giuliani pushed the state department to give a visa to this former prosecutor who could come to the united states to give to rudy giuliani what giuliani thought would be dirt basically about joe biden and about the president's political opponents. now, this is the prosecutor that joe biden back when he was the sitting vp had try today get the ukrainians to get rid of because he didn't think he was pursuing corruption enough. and rudy giuliani

was the most scared i've ever been as a performer with the exception of my first appearance on the lettermanround you in hopes of a better tomorrow? that was hilarious. that was your best one yet. >> jordan and i were like this is not fair. obama should be able to say what he wants. but because of the climate of the world and the racial spectrum we live in in the united states he can't, so we'll do it for him. >> i invited luther, my anger translator, to join me here tonight. >> we knew that this was something president obama was really going to enjoy. he may have felt that he could use an anger translator for real a few times and now he actually had one. >> we count on the press to shed light on the most important issues of the day. >> and we can count on fox news to terrify old white people with some nsense! >> i was amazing. it was earth shattering. the best way to describe the feeling is satisfaction. >> nonstop focus on billionaire donors creates real problems for our democracy. >> and that's why we running for a third time! >> no, we're not. >> we're not? >> no. >> who the hell said th

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letterman. and so getting that opportunity and to sit there sometimes for an hour, hour and a half.e. >> jimmy: no, it's not. >> keep them in the chair long enough, they break down, they open up a little bit. >> jimmy: you know what i think it is, your questions are questions oftentimes not only have you never been asked, they're things you haven't thought about before. sometimes like when you interview me, i feel like, oh, yeah, i never really considered that before. people become -- people like talking about themselves. they become so comfortable, they open up. and i was speaking to adam levine about this. we were on your show on monday. he said when he walks out of the studio sometimes he goes, oh, no, what did i say? he starts going back through everything he said. >> the thing that happened for me was, really i was in psychotherapy. and i talk about it in the book. and i'm a big proponent of it. and i started to think about how much i liked being listened to when i'm sitting in the chair with a psychiatrist. and i said, i really have to change my approach. because it might be r

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thank you so much, congressman ted lou of california, former senator clara mccaskill, and josh letterman. >> also president trump calls the impeachment inquiry a lynching. is he ignoring the racial connection to that word or is he exploiting it? think about that during the break. what's he up to when he calls himself a victim of a lynching? guys that look like him don't get lynched. he's also escalating his attacks on everyone involved in that inquiry. here it goes. >> and where is the person that gave the whistle-blower the information, because is that person a spy or does that person even exist? i have a feeling that person doesn't exist. >> oh, yeah, the president's increasingly erratic behavior you just heard there said to be setting off alarm bells within the republican party. is there a winner in the current field of candidates? is there a winner among them, is the next president there? two pig voices joining us tonight. oscar winning filmmaker and activist michael moore. he's just endorsed bernie sanders. let's talk about that. that is big endorsement. and representing the modern

turning now to nbc news national political reporter, josh letterman, the exclusive report about what a former national security official intends to tell congress next week. josh, what have you learned? >> earlier today, chris, we learned fiona hill until recently was the top russia and europe official at the white house planned to testify before congress next week. now we're learning about what she plans to say. according to a source that's familiar with her testimony, fiona hill plans to testify that ambassador gordon sondland and rudy giuliani essentially pulled an end run around the normal white house policymaking process on ukraine and were running a shadow foreign policy that circumvented security official john bolton and basically they had a direct line into trump to do a ukraine policy that differed from the normal process that's used across the government to come up with policy on foreign relations. >> hill had been there i think from the very beginning, right? she's a russia expert. she left in the summer, is that right? >> she started winding down her role there over the su

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joining us is national political reporter josh letterman. he dug through all the text messages and is here to help put him in context with us. we tried to go through the key points of that exchange. the president pointed to sondland's specific response when asked about the text messages. take a listen to this. >> the one text message i saw was just about the last text message. because i don't know -- i don't even know most of these ambassadors. i didn't even know their names. but the text message -- the text message that i saw from ambassador sondland, who is highly respected, was there's no quid pro quo. that was the text message that i saw and that nullified everything. >> all right. so the president there using his line no quid pro quo. same thing from republican allies. the only person who seemed to express discomfort with what was going on is bill taylor, the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine. contextualize this for us. >> reporter: first of all, just because someone iters the words quid pro quo doesn't make it so. quid pro quo is i'll do a

. >> and joining us is josh letterman this morning. good to have you with us this morning.stimony, and what it did to add to the overall impeachment narrative one way or another. >> reporter: we've seen this whole parade of officials that have come down, and testified now before congress. basically doing a lot of finger pointing at each other, about who was instigating this, who was taking the lead in working with rudy giuliani, and who knew what when. but the basic underlying facts of what they've been telling congress pretty much line up. including what gordon sondland told congress yesterday. so we're having more and more people that congress are hearing from, who lay out a time line, in which it's becoming clearer and clearer that president trump put rudy giuliani on to this case, told this troika of officials, that they needed to work through giuliani. so that's sondland, rick perry, who we were just speaking with, about, and kurt volker, the former u.s. special envoy to ukraine. all of them have offered similar explanations for the fact that it was clear that if they