we saw taylor swift animation pop icon enlisted to open the event.red to its american counterparts, the likes of cyber monday, black friday and the amazon prime day? the last year, singles day exceeded all of them put together. you could even throw in the $3.7 billion in sales on thanksgiving and singles day out did all of them put together in terms of online sales. it is incredible, the momentum that this create and the replacement forjack ma was the mastermind behind it. it is been interesting watching him take the helm. are there any concerns at all that investors might think considering thatjack ma is no longer at the helm? he left the company ina longer at the helm? he left the company in a good place. if you listen to him, he had been preparing for this for a long time. he first thought of retiring 15 years before it happened and for the ten years before his actual retirement he planned to retire at that moment. he built the organisation and put leaders in place to let them run with their ideas and the company has propelled forward. he is in ic

saw taylor on the sofa well u.s. democratic presidential hopeful to go abroad has been the butt of some cutting remarks from the new york times for her choice of clothing the paper reports that her white suits are more cult leader but otoh. it has been at asians have refrained from the center the white suits are of somewhat competent righteousness also called leaders. ringback only near liberals and move them when i want to support. that is the most ridiculous supposed to be article of . newspapers only as many of the content that you do. see she challenges the democratic establishment she is not supportive of regime change and less war all the money the military is spending often needlessly so she's somebody that really calls that out and i think the democratic establishment you know really is like how dare she do that and they come after her so and they come after her in ways as frivolous as this you know. to say that like her white pantsuit makes her a sort of like you know a cult leader and she's on the fringe an

it was not allowed, and i'd like to know the jury saw the taylor report. er verdict. there couldn't have been any other verdict but guilty. we all know she was guilty. the families know she was guilty. the families know who guilty. our city knows who's guilty. he can walk around 110w. who's guilty. he can walk around now. and get on with his life. with a not guilty verdict. to me, that is a not guilty verdict. to me, that is a disgrace. margit‘s son died in the hillsborough crash. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen willetts. good evening for some we are seeing a transition from mild and wet weather that we've had for most of the autumn to a much colder weather as we approach the end of the week. it looks drier and sunnier, but it will be much colder. we rely on this arctic air... the other one just about held at bay, and we have this sliver of high pressure coming through. but the flight in the ointment overnight will be ice, having had so much rain, the services will be left damp. the other one just about held at bay. and then we've got thi

and taylor saw that that was wrong. pparent reason i could see was undercutting the u.s. policy. that's a critical point. this aid was being withheld contrary to our best foreign policy interests. now, taylor, one of the great things about taylor as a witness is he has backed up. he has the receipts. he testified over and over that he took detailed handwritten notes as this was all happening. that's so important in assessing a witness. also remember, taylor sent these texts at the time this was all going down. he texted. are we now saying that security assistance are conditioned on investigations. conditioned. we talk about quid pro quo. conditioned is a keyword there. he also texted a week about that. as i said on the phone, i think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. so he is very strongly backed up. yesterday this was the most important piece of testimony we saw from taylor. that was my clear understanding. security assistance money would not come until the president of ukrai

taylor, that included serving in vietnam. they are not out to get the president as the president and his defenders have suggested. they saw wrongdoing, as ambassador taylor said, what the president was seeking to do was just wrong, and when asked to talk about it, they did not follow the president's guidance to not come to congress, they honored the constitution, they came forward and they described what legitimate u.s. foreign policy is and what they saw as irregular, illegitimate u.s. foreign policy. but i think, rachel, one of the most important exchanges is when ambassador taylor described what this meant, life and death, for ukrainians. he said undoubtedly, without u.s. security assistance, more ukrainians will die. that means the president of the united states was selfishly putting his own campaign's interest, his re-election interest, ahead of other people who would die because he was leveraging his campaign's assistance against their lives. >> well, congressman, i felt like there was also a really striking moment, actually, in your questioning with ambassador bill taylor today. you just referenced a little bit abo

she never saw taylor that night and instead last laid eyes on him wednesday morning. >> i went to sleep and i was happy because he was holding me all night. he always sleeps really close to me and his arm was still around me and we woke up wednesday and we got our day started . >> on halloween, taylor took part in a hollowing fundraiser for kids and then that night, his life was snatched away. >> they reporting that omar has a brother that is the stark running back. it was hours after finding out about his brother's death. they are having a tribute to him and the paper said my teammate, my brother, they said they were going to be there for me and it was good and i was surrounded by good people. >> the time is 7:08 am and they have arrested a man suspected of spending time in a regional park. 42-year-old roland faces already award for his arrest and faces charges of arson and failure to register as a sex offender. the fire started before 9:00 last night and it burned 10 acres. fire screws saw someone with the description of a suspicious person they located him. one firefighter needed med

report but the around the clock news coverage is falling flat with a lot of audience like you saw skew taylor comments very powerful about the talk to what a year it's been and has not felt like it's just been dragging on and everyone i speak to says the same thing that that confused and anxious for the democrats to stress because they've been struggling to find a single candidate who can take on trump and 2020 and the best they've come up with is a man whose payday it was when he posed in a short sleeved button down more than 40 years ago then you've got the republicans that just riddled with anxiety they keep checks in a nutshell not phone just praying that lead to hasn't gone on a twitter wrong page all put economy in a choke hold and then of course that the fending off attacks from the democrats left right and center you always told me talk it's bad to keep things bottled up inside and really politicians that just like os they need this stress relief to. so the people on the hell have signed up to a group therapy session and it's a classic safe space where everyone supports one another an

and you never know what testimony of one person may lead to the testimony of another, as we saw with pastor taylor. -- ambassador taylor, bringing forth david holmes today. that is a determination made by the committees of jurisdiction. we have not made any decision and isaac said to the president, if you have any information that is exculpatory, please bring it forward. it seems that the facts are as to what happened. if you have reason to convince people that something was different, underwrote, please ath,us know -- under o please let us know. >> [inaudible] the process would be long, arduous, and divisive. it turns out you are right. impeachment has taken on the tenor of being any other -- >> i cannot answer a question predicated on that. the republicans are in denial about the facts. beo not think we should characterized as partisans. your --oes that change as you try to make the case to the american people? >> we said we wanted to see the facts and we wanted the american people to see the facts. whatever decision is made, whatever decision is made to go forward will be based on our oath of o

taylor had the big bomb shell today. a brand new revelation that nobody, including the white house saw coming. taylor himself only learned about it last friday. another phone call, okay. wonder if they'll release a transcript of this one. this one a day after the infamous ukrain call july 25th. so for anybody that thought there would be nothing new in today's hearing, there's this. i'm going to let bill taylor tell you the story. you've got to hear it for yourself. >> in the presence of my staff at a restaurant, sondland called president trump and told him about the meetings in kiev. my assistant could hear him on the phone and mr. sondland told president trump the ukrainians were red a to move forward. >> a member of bill taylor's staff was a witness of a phone call between mr. sondland and president trump. he could hear president trump one day after he asked president zelensky to look into the bidens and a debunked conspiracy theory about the 2016 election. remember president trump said he barely knew gordon sondland but knew well noenough to have a phe conversation. and by the way what kind

on the ground in ukraine saw the other ground of the scheme and bill taylor also saw how desperately the ukrainians needed these dollars and he'll provide a human element to this. he went to eastern ukraine and he saw the ukrainians mourning their dead and he testifies to what it means to have radar equipment, medical equipment and anti-tank systems that can stop the russians from killing ukrainians and every second that this president selfishly held up that aid, those were ukrainians who were losing their lives. >> and of course, we do know the department of defense was asked and delivered within a day their analysis which was that this aid should be released and given and it added up in perspective. one person who was in direct contact with the president is the former national security adviser john bolton. i know you've all asked him to testify and he hasn't yet been subpoenaed. "the washington post" is reporting that bolton is willing to defy the white house, and willing to testify if a federal court clears the way, and i know you're waiting for a decision in a tes

in fact, when we saw bill taylor's testimony, we heard that he specifically sent a first-person cable to secretary pompeo. he was urged to do so by the former national security divorce john bolton. that table documented his concern that this ukraine assistance appeared to be held up for the political agenda of president trump, but secretary pompeo never responded to ambassador bill taylor, the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine, who is still on the job there. he's one of the folks expected to come forward for a public testimony next week. he's probably going to highlight even more details about secretary of state mike pompeo's role, who has really tried to remove him/of from the drama surrounding this inquiry. >> we'll see how long that continuings when bill tayor speaks publicly. on that point, michael, you worked with the security council previously, but also for the house intelligence committee previously. bill taylor did offer some pretty explosive testimony behind closed doors. here's one of the key lines of the testimony, the transcript that was released -- that was my understanding,

taylor. the first american female astronaut went to my childhood school. when she came and spoke, i wanted to be her ever since. astronauted to be an and sawbackgrounds. taylor: you got into this field, where do you see investing opportunities? how big do you think the market has the potential to be? tess: before making predictions about what is next, it is important to look back on the technological catalyst or momentum drivers that have gotten the industry to where it is today. specifically, the private space industry. there is two of those. the first is the invention of the -- of moore's law especially decreasing the size and power of commercial off-the-shelf components. it is a 10 by 10 by 12 centimeter box, the size of a tissue box that is a new type of formfactor they can be launched and put into space. before that, the only way to get an asset into space was a massive school bus sized satellite, which would take years if not decades and millions of billions of dollars to make. people flocked to this cube factor and put or communication. that was the first. the second was how to get it there. being a manager, i would see satellites b

taylor had the big bombshell today. there was a big bombshell. a brand-new revelation that nobody, including the white house, apparently saw coming. taylor himself only learned about it last friday. another phone call, okay? i wonder if there were leaks the transcript of this one. this one, the day after the president's infamous ukraine call on july 25th. so for anybody who thought there would be nothing new in today's hearings, there's this. i'm going to let bill taylor tell you the story. you've got to hear it for yourself. >> in the presence of my staff at a restaurant, ambassador sondland called president trump and told him of his meetings in kiev. the member of my staff could hear president trump on the phone asking ambassador sondland about the investigations. ambassador sondland told president trump the ukrainians were ready to move forward. >> so a member of bill taylor's staff was a witness to the july 26th call between the president and million dollar trump donor gordon sondland. he could hear the president on the other end asking about investigations just one day after he had asked president zelensky to do him a favor an

stance on the banking sector was a little more surprising than what we saw with tech. taylorthanks for joining. coming up, google is changing its advertising technology to better protect people's privacy, but will it be enough? we discuss next. this is bloomberg. ♪ taylor: the iconic motorola razr is back, but not how you remember it. motorola is rebooting its flip phone. it's a 6.2 inch smartphone with a foldable display. the company's executives say they are confident in its durability despite competitor's struggles, compared to samsung's galaxy fold. the new razr is the most affordable model in its category. other devices so far are more like foldable tablets. the phone costs $1500 and will be available for preorder in december, arriving in stores in january. google said it would make changes to its advertising technology to better protect people's privacy. that follows scrutiny by watchdogs. starting in february, google will no longer divulge information to participants in its ad auctions about the type or website or page that an ad could appear. we are joined by the seni

we saw bill taylor said, it was becoming clear to me that meeting president zelensky was conditioned. we heard from vindman, it was a demand for him to fulfill this prerequisi prerequisite. it had to happen first to get the meeting. similar from sondland. i recall speaking with resumption of aid would not resume until the investigation. kurt volker quid pro quo to ukraine. and mick mulvaney said get over it. and donald trump said, i want you to do us -- i would like you to do us a favor. we have those three pieces all connected up. >> your closing argument is pretty effective, counselor. then there will be a house vote. that's what will happen after that. >> yes. >> the way you lay it out, it should be an easy vote. >> the republicans aren't going to go away without a fight. we know what the defenses are going to be. no quid pro quo, i want nothing. it's after they got caught that donald trump said that. every defendant pleads guilty. we're going to see second-hand information. there's plenty of firsthand information this week. and we're going to hear, it was bad but not impeachable.

i think ultimately what you're going to see tomorrow is see another individual like we saw with taylor and kent, professional dedicated public servant who's given their life to, you know, the betterment of our country and our national security and our foreign relation relations. >> jennifer, you've been nay few trials in your time. democrats made a conservative effort in the first public hearings. i assume they're going to try to continue that tomorrow -- of making this almost like a court case, less the political theater using the low lower to do the bulk of questions or when shift was involved, very methodical. there's not a lot of play acting as we've seen in previous hearings. az lawyer, you review of the strategy. >> it's the right strategy. the democrats are about getting out the facts. they want the american public to see what happened here. they were also very smart in focusing on what the problem was, why this was so problematic what was going on with this extortion scheme essentially because they asked questions about not just what happened here but why is it problematic? why

to tell their story, they want to testify before congress and get out in great detail as we saw from bill tayloreir experienced. we have another one coming up on friday and into next week i think sondland is going to be really important. everybody keeps name dropping him as someone who talked directly to the president. so, listen, it is a long process. so far democrats should feel good because they have brought the public along certainly from where we were months ago about how the public felt about impeachment and can they keep doing that is a big question. >> and michael i want to come to you as not an impeachment lawyer but somebody who lives in north carolina. what do you think the effect of this testimony is in not just the people's republic of chapel hill but out in the rest of the state, are people paying attention? do they care, are they getting their information from partisan or ideology sources. >> i'm sure they care. north carolina is ground zero for a lot of things including political divide and i think we have sharp divisions in the state of north carolina and it may well be that the

brought forward that was not allowed, it was not allowed, and i would like to know if the jury saw the taylor through that there could not have been any other verdict. there couldn't have been any other verdict but guilty. we all know who is guilty. the families know who is guilty. the families know who's guilty. our city knows who's guilty. he can walk around now and get on with his life with a not guilty verdict, to me that is a disgrace. that was margaret who's son james died in the hillsboro crash. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:40 and 11:30 this evening in the papers — our guests joining me tonight are anand menon, director of uk in a changing europe and the spectator‘s deputy political editor, katy balls. the institute for fiscal studies says neither the conservatives nor labour, are being honest with voters — about spending in the run—up to the election. the independent research group has examined both parties‘ manifestos, and says their economic plans are not credible. our economics editor, faisal islam joins me now. w

taylor saw his policy as an improvement on obama, he was happy that we were providing aid to, a substantial improvement, and this administration provided javelin antitank weapons. still, trump is far more skeptical of foreign aid than any of the people who listened in on his call. frankly most of the people shouldn't be working in the white house let alone in a high-level position such as ambassador. marie yovanovitch testimony illustrates why, the democrats interviewing her were only interested in the drama surrounding her firing. >> the transcript of her closed-door testimony has the words "seal," felt" and "emotion" 43 times. it sounds like this woman needs to be on a therapist's couch, not a witness stand. george kennan's testimony was also supposed to be a huge bombshell. >> george kent will testify publicly on wednesday, he was told how extensive the influence was on the president. >> his testimony i think the most compelling and may be most. >> laura: bill kristol is always right, that was the spin. here is what he actually told the impeachment inquisitors. do you have any first-hand

in fact it's been a process here that obviously we saw bill taylor come in and directly contradict gordon sondland, who was one of the first witnesses to come in for the impeachment inquiry. then there was morrison and other national security officials, vindman who have come in. now we've had four versus one really and sondland's recollection versus everyone since then. we know that one detail specifically was that this supplemental declaration was brought to the committee yesterday afternoon and over the course of last night and today they have added footnotes to his testimony and we got the product we got today. it really is a reversal on a very important point as to whether or not gordon sondland knew about the involvement of money or suspicions about involvement of money, how that was communicated to him isn't always necessarily cleared up in the supplemental. what is very clear now is that he was delivering the message to the ukrainians almost a very threatening message that if president trump's goals were not met, it was very unlikely, he said, that the $400 million -- nearly $400 m

but they also made the point that neither taylor nor george kent who testified alongside taylor saw or heard anything firsthand. and they again demanded to hear directly from the anonymous whistle-blower and yet ignored the absence of key players who were ducking all the hearings at the request of the president. now let's get a take on what today meant. we have democratic congressman jim himes. he sits on the house intel panel. always good to have you on "prime time." what moved the needle most for the case against the president today in. >> i think the big thing today was two spectacular witnesses, people who have devoted their entire career to serving the country under republican and democratic presidents, both of whom repeatedly said that even if you just take the transcript, which the president is encouraging us all to read, that that was not right. that that was illegal. that that was an abuse of power. i know the republicans is mounted two defenses but you heard that from the people, you actually didn't talk to the president. they're also not saying that the facts are could be te

and what they saw here was basically a shadow campaign to pursue political goals running parallel to legitimate u.s. foreign policy. and at one point, bill taylors no good reason that he saw to withhold the lethal aid to ukraine. and that he also saw that they were -- that it was being withheld for reasons that would benefit president trump politically. george kent testified that he believed giuliani was trying to dig up dirt on the president's political opponent. that's the big picture here. it's not just that the u.s. government was seeking something in exchange for something else. it is that the thing that they were seeking was personal in nature and political in nature and not in service to broader u.s. foreign policy. >> and just to jump in, i think more than just being parallel policy, it was actually clashing and going against what was in the u.s. interests. >> thank you very much. great to talk to both of you. >> we saw both democrats and republicans. and they were very different cases in the first day of the impeachment hearings. we're going to explain legal strategy behind what they did next. in one week... a lot will happen in your l

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you saw ambassador bill taylor and george kent repeatedly refuse to get sucked into what was obviously some of the partisan dynamics on this committee. and i think with a couple of exceptions, this functioned as it should. >> welcome back to our viewers here in the studio with us. chuck rosenberg is here. neil is here. claire mccaskill is here. and george conway. yes, george conway is here. that george conway. starting with you, george, what have we just witnessed? >> well, i -- i don't think the republicans made much headway there and i think it's exactly as nicolle expressed it. you saw some non-partisan professionals basically just tell us the facts. and the facts are quite damning. and the defenses that were put up by the republicans were fundamentally illlogical and incoherent. i mean, one defense was, hey, they actually got the money. the ukrainians got the money and zelensky didn't make a statement. but the fact of the matter is, it was the ask that was illegal. the second point they tried to make was that the -- these witnesses didn't have firsthand communications with the pres

members of the committee did not know about all this until they saw the statement from taylor yesterday. cnn has learned that the white house was caught off-guard, as well. president trump claimed he had no recollection of this call. >> this aide that heard that call will testify behind closed doors tomorrow. and ambassador sondland will be asked about

members of the committee did not know about all this until they saw the statement from taylor yesterday morning. cnn has learned that the white house was caught off-guard, as well. president trump claimed he had no recollection of this call. >> this aide that heard that call will testify behind closed doors tomorrow. and ambassador sondland will be asked about this during his testimony next week. sondland is one of four witnesses to testify with firsthand knowledge of the president's involvement. republicans were critical of the second-hand information, as they called it, provided by taylor and kent. former former ambassador marie yovanovitch will testify about the smear campaign against her, she says engineered by rudy giuliani. there's a lot to get to. let's start with jessica schneider live in washington for us. >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. it was a day of impeachment disclosures. bill taylor's testimony that the president could be heard talking about the investigations. and he said that he cared about an investigation more than joe biden himself. with adam schiff asked if this

what that means for russia if we don't support ukraine, and we saw that from yovanovitch, we saw that from taylor kent last week. it's what you're going to see from all of these witnesses when they're going to be asked why is it so important that ukraine receive that aid, why was it so important that zelensky have a meeting with president trump and it lays out the narrative for the american people as to why u.s. foreign policy, u.s. national security was on the line because it countered the president's actions counters what our traditional national security policy was when it comes to ukraine. >> rudy giuliani tweeted late last week, you know, where's the crime? where's the victim? there doesn't have to be a crime and the victim was ukraine, and our policy, and our efforts to stem russian influence in ukraine and around the world. >> so we've seen some aggressive moments from republicans on the committee leading up to today. i think it will all pale in comparison to what you will see in a couple of hours. republicans are gearing up for a fight. they are gearing up to go after colonel vindman. the

been asked to do which is to come in, testify before congress, something that they saw that they thought as ambassador taylor described it was just wrong. they were not eager to come forward. they're not out to get the president. they saw wrongdoing. they honored their oath to the constitution and came to congress to tell us about it. >> what do you think we learned today that builds on what you've described as this simple story of holding up military aid for the corrupt demand of dirt on political rivals? >> the president's call record confirms that he was asking the president of ukraine to investigate his political opponent. that's not really in dispute. but i think ambassador taylor describing being on the eastern front of this war in ukraine and that this is a matter of life and death, and as he said undoubtedly more ukrainians would die if security assistance was not given to them. that puts it in perspective that the president of the united states, for the most selfish reasons, his own personal interest in a re-election bid is holding up aid for the ukraines and that people are actually dying because t

know what testimony of one person may lead to the need for testimony of another, as we saw with ambassador taylor at the beginning of last week, bringing forth mr. holmes today. again, that will be a judgment made by the committees of jurisdiction. the >> sandra: not over yet, more witnesses make space might be to come. what did you take from that, bret can max be when i'm at the take it to 30,000 feet. to her point, there's a process. to go through committee, there's a vote, there's article of impeachment that go through the house is your committee. and then the house floor, that goes over to the sender for the trial. the 30,000-foot perspective, if people are watching this and they think, "oh, my gosh, our government is in chaos, this is nuts," there is a process. at this hour, and about 14 minutes, the israeli attorney general is going to indict the prime minister of israel, benjamin netanyahu, on corruption charges. netanyahu has denied those charges, but that indictment is moving forward. that throws into question about the leadership of israel. in great britain, there is all kinds of chaos

days prior taylor wrote a first-person cable to secretary of state mike pompeo describing the folly i saw in with holding military aid to ukraine at a time when hostility was still active in the east and russia is watching closely to gauge the level of american support for the ukrainian government. taylor was embarrassed he couldn't tell the ukrainians why the aid was held up and prepared to resign. despite the concerns, taylor admitted he never talked to the president. >> even though he didn't speak with the president, he was dealing with the people the president was giving orders to. and all the while taking meticulous notes. jake, taylor provided details testimony referring to the notes and told lawmakers he's always been a careful note taker and writing in a note book after conversations and phone calls which is why when you read this, it reads like a diary, jake. >> thanks so much. let's chew over this. and laura i want to start from one section of the testimony that i found interesting. question, is your testimony that, hey, you don't make these public statements about these two pol

taylor: we saw the apple pr marketing machine underway this week. few mac pros, but we are not talking about building the iphone at that factory. yet he has gotten in president trump's good graces. do you see that as an undervalued asset when you take a look at apple? >> absolutely. to put some context to that, we are talking about 1% of apple's business is this mac pro, this high-end computer. yes, it is an undervalued asset. when we think about this relationship, it is a relationship that both benefit from. it is clear to look at how apple benefits from these exclusions from tariffs. not only that, but as we go forward, at being in the good graces of the administration should help with future tariffs, as you have outlined. at even next year as this plays out. the separate piece on this is this helps trump obviously as well on building his brand around what is, globally, one of the most respected companies globally. i think tim cook, if we remind the last decade, is that he came in being really known as being an operator. now he is, has become a st

saw gentrification. i said what are you talking about? he said i walked around taylor and eddy and saw the condos popping up. i am worried we are building condos and not affordable housing. i said those are affordable housing buildings. yes, they are beautiful. yes, they represent what people in this community need andy serve. people are going to walk by this and say, wow, i wish i could live there. that is what we want for everyone living in the city and the residents. thank you for allowing us to celebrate. thank you for going through this process. i am sure there was a level of disruption. thank you to bank of america and all of the project managers. i live one block from here right on hyde and ellis. this is my neighborhood. i walk by here every day and i am so happy for the residents and this entire community that this building has been expanded in the way that it has. thank you. (applause). >> thank you so much, matt. please welcome the executive director of glide community housing. (applause). >> good morning everybody. it is my pleasure to be here today. flied

as we saw with yovanovitch and taylor and today in the deposition of david holmes, that defiance of congresssn't always work but that doesn't prevent it from being a central artco artco a article of impeachment and part of that article will be witness intimidation of of the first order. i'd rather not see an endless series of separate impeachment articles but in the end that's a judgment call that under guidance ultimately of speaking pelosi are going to have to make. >> no president has ever made the more difficult for the house of representatives to narrow doup their article of impeachment accusations. >> he makes it hard to go with the mantra small is beautiful. because a really proliferating series are possible including being an imposter to begin with by asking for russia's help to become president and taking advantage of it. but i think nancy pelosi is right that less is more in this case. we have to focus and narrow down but ultimately it's up to senators to ask can we really go down with this ship? are we going to stick with this kind oabuse of power? abuse of the constitution until

government so she brings tremendous credibility and when she speaks, like we saw from both bill taylorwill do so with precision. she will lay out the facts of a campaign that has been undertaken against her by giuliani and his henchmen for well over a year. and she will also say, in public, as she said in her private testimony, that she literally could not believe what was happening. that an american ambassador and the work of an entire u.s. embassy would be undermined by private political interests and that our relations with such a crucial country, that is really a bulwark against russia could be thrown to the winds simply for these personal political interests. >> all right. all of you, stay with me. >>> next, the two attorneys, you heard how david axelrod referred to one of them, these were the two who caught trump's attention. >> i see they're using lawyers that are television lawyers. they took some guys off television. >> who are they? we made usaa inr members like kate. a former army medic, made of the flexibility to handle whatever monday has in store and tackle four things at

taylor was awarmed and sent a cable to secretary of state mike pompeo describing the folly i saw and in with holding military aid to ukraine at a time hostility was active in the east and russia is watching closely to gauge the level of american support for the ukrainian government. taylor's testimony points to a quid pro quo. something the president has repeatedly denied. >> there was no quid pro quo. at all. >> i didn't do it. there was no quid pro quo. >> reporter: taylor was asked if the president ever told taylor directy why the aid was being withheld and taylor saying i didn't hear it from the president, i can't say what the president was thinking. >> and that is what republicans are seizing on. >> they said any information that they had was from whom? ambassador sondland. none ev-- none of them talked t the president. i assure you there is no link to the president. >> reporter: and taylor criticized rudy giuliani for his rogue foreign policy on ukraine. when taylor was asked if e.u. ambassador gordon sondland was responsible for holding aid in exchange for investigations someth

deal under consideration and republicans really zoned in on that or you probably saw how they grilled embassador taylor saying well how many times have you met with trump 0 how many times have you met with giuliani and during this time period 0 because all of his information came from other sources and so that is still the compelling challenge that democrats have as they continue to move forward this is with this inquiry still having haven't proven to the public that trump ordered this to happen and thus not proving that he is to blame for this so on terms of witnesses some of the as you mentioned the republicans saying this is all his say and when we're going to hear from people who knew but when. who else are we going to hear from what's what's the kind of plan for these public hearings as they go forward. right bill today it would be witness one into d.c. to be the most one specially vasser they were sort of laying out the roadmap for the american public to follow on friday we'll be hearing from his predecessor ambassador maria a lot of that who was recalled from ukraine and of the set up to how all