taylor, the u.s. envoy to ukraine. sondeland and on the ukraine side, andrier mack, an aid to ukranian president. the morning of the phone call between trump and zelensky, volcker texted saying heard from white house assuming president z he will investigate/get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail down date for visit to washington. good luck. see you tomorrow. by now thanks to the first whistle blower complaint and a rough transcript of trump's ukraine call we now know that on that call trump pressed zelensky to launch -- everyone involved in this text messages only one career ambassador bill taylor pushed back texting on september 1st quote, are we now saying that security assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations? to which gordon text back, call me. taylor then pushes back again on september 9th texting quote, as i said on the phone, i think it's crazy to with hold security assistance for help with a political campaign. almost five hours later sondland seemed to suddenly become aware of how damaging the written messages all saved to the cloud could be