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taylor: thank you, mark. coming up, we will hear from a senator on how he plans to make sure companies like facebook and google respect your privacy. that's next. this is bloomberg. ♪ taylor: he may be the junior senator from missouri, but he's making a name for himself by being one of the senate's most outspoken critics of tech. he has introduced bills to make tech more transparent on data tracking as well as trying to ensure u.s. consumers' data is not being stored overseas -- trying to assure u.s. consumers. >> facebook has said or users that they can turn off location tracking. as it turns out, you cannot. even if you say you don't to be tracked by facebook, facebook on your phone continues to scan all of the wi-fi in your area. it continues to use your cellular location, and it continues to transmit that information to facebook, so this is another misrepresentation, frankly, and i would like to know why is it facebook is telling its users they can stop tracking when they cannot. google does the same th

taylor: that was ashlee vance. coming up, former american express ceo and chairman ken chenault discusses his effort to link with higher education programs with employers. his position on the board of the denver-based, fema ed guild , education, that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ the education industry appears to have given birth to its newest unicorn one that wants to connect to educational programs with the understanding that higher education can lead to economic mobility. guild education is a denver-based female lead unicorn that is fresh off of an infusion of cash taken into the unicorn status. on thursday, i spoke with the ceo and a member of its board of directors, ken chennault, who happens to be the former ceo of american express. >> at guild we partner with leading employers like disney and walmart to collect education -- connect education for their employees with the corporate strategy. we have done it by building a technology platform that enables companies to offer education to their employees and in

taylor. i think that might be the smarter way to go rather than to try to beat him up. >> martha: seems that that release of aid which was not forthcoming in the obama administration and which is worth pointing out yovanovitch the ambassador who we are going to hear from on friday was adamant, she wanted the obama administration to release lethal aid on behalf of ukraine in order to support themselves and fortify themselves against russia. none of that happened during the obama administration. senator john mccain was very outspoken on the meals ready to eat that had been sent to ukraine. that did get released in this administration. now, there was a hold on it, which we have heard a lot about today. to characterize the whole of ukrainian policy against russia it clearly strengthened during the trump administration. just one other point on george kent. george kent in his testimony testimony, his closed door testimony, pointed out that he had expressed concerns and he mentioned this earlier as

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 ukraine committed to pursue the investigation. that is what prosecutors call a head shot. it is right on point. >> so taylor will testify he saw a shakedown and he thought it was wrong. both of those things are key for the democrats. now, kurt volke

this is bill taylor talking. he says ambassador sondland told me that he zelensky was dependent on a public investigation. he says president zelensky was in a box by making a public statement about ordering such investigations. so to manu's point, it's not directly coming from president trump, but it sounds like it's trump to sondland to taylor. is that good enough for democrats here? >> he doesn't suggest all this has been freelanced. when you talk about what is good enough, frankly, you talk about prosecutorial discretion and prerogative in a criminal case. when it comes to impeachment, we're talking about whatever it is congress says is sufficient to constitute abuse of power. frankly, the pure breadth of this system that you're seem outlines the abuse of power that you're seeing that is part and parcel to the impeachment inquiry for a variety of reasons. the notion that what bill taylor seems to be very concerned about is the overwhelming and cannot be overstated leverage that the united states had with respe

taylor, ambassador taylor speak. and you'll see and hear with your own eyes, and all they're going to try to see is don't believe them or come up with something they want to just make up out of the clear blue. they have no way out.f the doors are closing in, and as you saw with sondland coming back to change his testimony, others will be stepping up to make their testimony because one of the things i've always said if you even go back to the nixon days, those that lied went to jail. and so people got to start os thinking about their own interests.eo they know that the president's not going to stand up behind them, so you're going to see more of the truth coming out as to what the president has done and how he continues to do it. >> congressman gregory meeks, one of the front row witnesses toro history in this impeachmen inquiry. thank you for coming in and joining us tonight. ned price, thank you very much. mieke eoyang is going to stay with us for more. when we come back gordon sondland who apparently brought his am

taylor: how do we get proof? >> proof, really, is all about -- all the voting machines we have today and all the voting machines we have in the foreseeable future are something we can hack. the question is not to audit the machines. the machine has to be as good as possible, but, really, it's about auditing the results and making certain the public can trust that the results are the correct ones. it is all about auditing. taylor: do you agree that we need to improve our auditing security ofsure the the elections? >> well, that is one of the key components. we have to make sure that state and local governments implement basic cybersecurity hygiene and best practices. we have to make sure there is paper backing every single ballot, and we've got to do audits that are robust enough to give us a high probability of detecting any outcome-changing fraud. you have mentioned paper voting twice now. give me your thoughts on paper ballots versus electronic voting. electronic voting, unfortunately, was very popular a decade

diplomat in ukraine, bill taylor. the repeatedly described a quid pro quo to lawmakers behind closed doors and now publicly scheduled to testify one week from today. we're joined by our analysts and reporter. one of the things you're learning about this attitude towards the secretary of state, mike pompeo, over at the state department. >> we've talked to a lot of foreign service officers, career state foreign service officers. the general idea is they have lost confidence in him. he encouraglost confidence in ar yovanovitch. and our report is there has been a sea change at the department. pompeo, when he came in, did a number of good things at the department, who felt they were threatened during the tiller scenario and letting go of hiring freezes. he was doing good things. we heard about that during the testimony from one of his former top advisors, michael mckinley and spoke about things when it was good and now they're devastated over what is happening and lack of support they are getting from pompeo and they're fe

the joint 25th call and this is consistent with the reported comments from ambassadors volcker and taylor after this alleged scheme meeting i also met with selenski senior aide andre your mac i don't recall the specifics of our conversation but i believe the issue of investigations was probably a part of that agenda our meeting also on july 26th shortly after our kiev meetings i spoke by phone with president trump the white house which has finally finally shared certain call dates and times with my attorneys confirms this the call lasted 5 minutes i remember i was at a restaurant in kiev and i have no reason to doubt that this conversation included the subject of investigations again given mr giuliani's demand that president selenski make a public statement about investigations i knew that investigations were important to president trump we did not discuss any classified information other witnesses have recently shared their recollection of overhearing this call for the most part i have no reason to doubt their accounts it's true that the president speaks loudly at times and it's also tru

this is what david holmes the aide to ambassador taylor told ambassador taylor. what was your reaction to the -- from the reaction from the president? >> well, look, i also know the president said that today's hearing or the inquiry is a joke. i could tell you, wolf, there is nothing funny about our country finding ourselves directly involved in an -- in an mea impeachment inquiry due to the inappropriate and disgraceful ourselves, ise president. this the kind of country that we want where not just this president but any future president can abuse their authority or their power for political purposes. i say that is not the kind of country that the american people want. >> representative val demings, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >>> coming up, more on the newly revealed phone call that the president said he simply doesn't remember and it tied the president directly about pressing ukraine for political investigations. . dough made from scratch, every day. sauce from our original recipe. and authentic toppings like crispy, old world pepperoni™. because

morrison and ambassador taylor, you informed mr. yermak that they would need to announce these investigations in order to get the aid, did you not? >> mr. yermak was already working on those investigation, on the statement about the investigations. >> and you confirmed for him he needed to get it done if they were going to get the military aid? >> i likely did. >> reporter: mr. morrison, and ambassador tea lar already related a conversation you had with the president following the warsaw meeting. in which president relaid to you there was no quid pro quo but nevertheless,less zelensky went to the mic and announced these investigations, they would be a stalemate over the aid. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> that was an accurate reflection of your discussion with the president? >> well, that email was not artfully written. i'm the first to admit. what i was trying to convey to ambassador taylor after his frantic emails to me and to others about the security assistance, which by the way, i agreed with him. i tla i thought it was

and 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 b

morrison and taylor? >> mr. morrison testified that you related a conversation you had with the president in which the president told you no quid pro quo, but president zelensky must go to the microphone and announce these investigations, and that he should want to. similarly, you told ambassador taylor that while the president said no quid pro quo, unless zelensky announced these investigations they would be at a stalemate, presumably a stalemate over the military assistance. do you have any reason to question those conversations that mr. morrison and ambassador taylor took notes about? >> well, i think it's tied to my text, chairman, because in my text, i think i said something to the effect that he wants zelensky to do what he ran on, i believe, is transparency, et cetera, et cetera. which was my clumsy way of saying he wanted -- he wanted these announcements to be made. >> again, ambassador, i'm not asking about your text message. i'm asking about what you relayed to ambassador taylor about your conversation

taylor, ambassador taylor to pick up the ball and take it from there. i had gone as far as i could go. >> and you believed the president, correct? >> you know what? i'm not going to characterize whether i believed or didn't believe. i was just trying to convey what he said on the phone. >> and at that point in time, the pause in the aid, the aid was paused for 55 days, there was a news art cal in "politico" on august 28th talking about it. by that point in time the president had been receiving calls from senators, getting pressure to lift the aid, correct? >> that's what i understand, yes. >> i want to turn back to your opener on page five under -- when you talk about, in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid, i later came to believe that the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement from ukraine committing to the investigations. correct? >> correct. >> and you acknowledge that this is speculation, right? >> it was a presumption. >> okay. but you -- it was a guess, in fact, i think you even

bill taylor, the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine and george kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state testified today for about six hours. taylor providing this crucial new evidence. here he is telling lawmakers about a phone call which took place one day after trump asked for a favor from the president of ukraine when zelensky brought up military aid. >> in the presence of at a restaurant, ambassador sondland called president trump and told him of his meetings in kiev. a member of a staff could hear prdz on the phone asking ambassador sondeland about the investigations. mr. sondland told president trump that the ukranians were ready to move forward. >> taylor then revealing what took place immediately after ambassador sondland, that, of course, is gordon sondland and ambassador to the eu right after he hung up with president trump. >> and i think you said that after the call when your staff asked ambassador sondland what president trump thought of ukraine, his response was that president trump cares more abo

ambassador taylor recalls that mr. morrison told -- now, again, this is i hereby swear and affirm from gordon sondland. ambassador taylor recalls that mr. morrison told -- that i conveyed this. >> let me just say that i don't consider myself a star witness for anything. >> reporter: kent and taylor, who are career non-political diplomats did not waver and were steadfast that hundreds of millions of dollars in crucial security aid and a meeting of the presidents in washington were held back unless -- >> mr. kent, is pressuring ukraine to conduct what i believe you've called political investigations a part of u.s. foreign policy to promote the rule of law in ukraine and around the world? >> it is not. >> is it in the national interest of the united states? >> in my opinion, it is not. >> to withhold that assistance for no good reason other than help with a political campaign made no sense. it was -- it was counterproductive to all of what we had been trying to do. it was illogical. it could not be explained. it was crazy

taylor, i am. taylor painting a haunting portrait of a foreign policy process that quite literally meant life and death to the ukrainians, had been hijacked by what he describes as an irregular policy channel run by rudy giuliani that went directly to donald trump. quote, from those transcripts. taylor, in order to get president zelensky and president trump in a meeting in the oval office, they took from that may 23rd meeting that they needed to work with rudy giuliani. so and so they did. and perhaps most intriguing since at this point former national security adviser john bolton remains an ilouisive and unwilling witness in the aid for dirt investigation into donald trump, there's this about a policy meeting on ukraine that took place inside the west wing, a meeting that bolton abruptly ended when the topic of investigations came up. taylor, when ambassador sondland raised investigations in the meeting, that triggered ambassadorbolton's antenna, political antenna, and he said we don't do politics

taylor. we're going to be hearing more testimony in just a few moments. they took a short break. soon it will also go over to the republican side for 45 minutes of interrupted questioning by republicans. so that will be interesting to see. it does bear repeating and i think both taylor and the other witness made it very clear that, you know, this wasn't happening in a vacuum. this was happening in a country at war where lives were being lost every day or every week in this trench warfare that's going on in ukraine. so this holdup of aid, it's not just like pieces on a chess board. there is a human cost potentially behind all of this. >> it's not a bloodless policy dispute. people have to keep that in mind. this is not an issue of an obama policy versus a trump policy. the trump policy was to help the ukrainians defend themselves. it's this irregular policy which comes out of the blue and undermines our national policy to help ukraine which is at issue here. >> two key things. ambassador kent

top of the list, something bill taylors a taylor, the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine said he didn't even know about when he testified behind closed doors last month. one of his aides came forward to tell him about a call the aide overheard between president trump and ambassador gordon sondland. that's important for one reason because it shows a connection between the two men that the president kind of disavowed. the timing matters more. it came the day after the infamous july 25th call with ukraine's president zelensky. >> 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 reaady to move forward. the ambassador sondland responded that president trump cares more about the investigation of biden, which giuliani was pressing for. >> to be clear, as you heard at the end, the investigation is being discusse

taylor: why? sarah: instagram says there is a big difference between letting them talk about these things and paying them to talk about these things. facebook has a new stab where they are paying all sorts of -- has a news tab where they are paying all sorts of groups from talking about politics all the time. the understanding that these are all under the same umbrella. taylor: i wonder if this is , that facebook doesn't appear to be endorsing that person's views? sarah: if they were to pay for content that becomes political in any direction, then people could say instagram paid to have this video made. taylor: another story, facebook bundling all of its payment apps into facebook pay. does this further antagonize regulators who think this is may be a defense mechanism so that facebook is harder to break up? there is something to be said for facebook pay across all of those services, whether it is whatsapp, instagram, facebook, messenger. this goes back to what i was saying earlier that the compan

taylor, mr. kent have you had any contact with the president of the united states. >> i have not. >> so not only no conversations with the president of the united states about ukraine. you have not had any contact with the president of the united states? correct? >> that's correct. >> okay. so, you both know that this impeachment inquiry is about the president of the united states, don't you? i mean, the man that neither of you have had any contact with, you are the first-up witnesses. i just find that a little amazing that the first up would be two people who have never had any contact with the president himself. now, kurt volker did have contact with the president and contact with the president on ukraine. mr. ambassador taylor, you said he is a man of highest integrity. i know kurt volker and i know he served as the nato ambassador. he served the director mccain institute. he is the highest professional ethics. one of the most knowledgeable people about europe. is he absolutely a truthful man.

taylor, yes, sir. then chairman schiff asked him, are you aware that quid pro quo means this for that? ambassador taylor replies, i am. the very thing in the very words the president and his defenders said did not happen. today one of those defenders gave an especially novel reason why not. the incompetent crook theory you might call it. >> it's incoherent. depends who you talk to. seem to be incapable of performing a quid pro quo. >> so the presidential policy to incoherently to effectively blackmail ukraine? you just look at mob bosses. as a general rule aren't brain surgeons but seem to do a pretty good job of blackmail and extortion. quid pro quos. keeping it honest, looking at all the testimonies, including sondland's, graham said it just doesn't ring true. the witnesses paint a clear picture of a systematic pressure campaign unfolding over several months either bypassing normal channels or compromising them to get the job done. if it didn't step from the president of the united states then this i

taylor? >> well, mr. morrison testified that you relayed a conversation you had with the president in which the president told you no quid pro quo, but president zelensky must go to a microphone and announce these investigations, and that he should want to. similarly, you told ambassador taylor that while the president said no quid pro quo, unless zelensky announced these investigations, they would be at a stalemate, presumably a stalemate over the military assistance. do you have any reason to question those conversations that mr. morrison and ambassador taylor took notes about? >> well, i think it's tied to my text, mr. chairman, because in my text i think i said something to the effect that he wants zelensky to do what he ran on, i believe is transparency, et cetera, et cetera, which was my clumsy way of saying he wanted these announcements to be made. >> again, ambassador, i'm not asking about your text message. i'm asking about what you relayed to ambassador taylor and mr. morrison about your convers

as a master taylor referenced earlier in his testimony in oral answering. he heard on august 16th he then called me and we had a conversation and at that point memorialized my concerns and a note to the file ambassador taylor is the point person on the ground in ukraine were you aware of this. effort to get ukraine to issue this written statement in early august not the written statement those are so the entire discussion about a public statement about the 2 investigation frezza trump one and what i wanted was done in what you have described as an irregular channel involving ambassador sagal and volcker and a task to take on ukraine policy by the president isn't that correct mr kant that would be my understanding ambassador. and if it gets to close to a primer on hearsay i think the american public needs to be reminded that countless people have been convicted on hearsay because the courts have routinely allowed and created needed exceptions to hearsay here's say can be much better evidence then direct as we have learned in painful instances and certainly v

ambassador taylor, should we get over it? >> if we're talking about political influence meaning attempts towe get information tt is solely useful for political campaigns, if that's what he's talking about. we should not get used to that. >>us finally, mr. mulvaney said again, i was involved with the process by which the money was held up temporarily, okay. three issues for that. the corruption of the country, whether or not the countries are participating in the support of ukraine and whether or not they were cooperating in an ongoing investigation with our department of justice. that's completely legitimate. mr. kent, were you aware of any formal department of justice cooperation request made to the ukrainians? >> i am not aware that there was any formal department of justice request in this matter, no. >> was mr. mulvaney's statement false? >> ine think you'd refer that question to theef department of justice since irt don't have fu knowledge on what they may have been w working on. >> just before you sat down to testify to

taylor? >> well, mr. morrison testified that you related a conversation you had with the president in which the president told you no quid pro quo, but president zelensky must go to a microphone and announce these investigations. and that he should want to. similarly, you told ambassador taylor that, while the president said no quid pro quo, unless zelensky annoue at presumably a. do you have any reason to question those conversations that mr. morrison and ambassador taylor took notes about? >> well, i think it's tied to my text, mr. chairman, because in my text i think i said something to the effect that he wants zelensky to do what he ran on, i believe, is transparency, et cetera, et cetera, which was my clumsy way of saying, he wanted -- he wanted these announcements to be made. >> again, ambassador, i'm not asking about your text message. i'm asking about what you relaid to ambassador taylor and mr. morrison about your conversation with the president. do you have any reason to question their recollect

taylor, we do that all the time with foreign policy, my question, ambassador taylor, on investigation into his political opponent, prior to this administration, is this something we would do all the time? >> no, sir. >> why not? >> we condition assistance on issues that will improve our foreign policy, serve our foreign policy, use -- ensure taxpayers' money is well spent, those are the -- and those conditions are either coming from the congress or from policy decisions stemming from authority congress has given us to make sure that the taxpayer's money is well spent or that the receiving company -- country takes the actions in our national interest. >> can you describe in your text message exchanges that engaging in a scheme like this is, quote, crazy, can we also agree that it is just wrong? >> yes. >> why is it wrong? >> again, our holding up of security assistance that would go to a country that is fighting aggression from russia for no good policy reason, no good substantive reason, no good -- national security reason, is wrong. >> mr. mulvaney, in the same news conference, said,

at least it appeared to be funny to ambassador bill taylor. >> ambassador taylor, i want to turn to the discussion of the irregular channel you described. and in fairness this irregular channel of diplomacy, it's not as outlandish as it could be, is that correct? >> it's not as outlandish as it could be, i agree. >> okay. >> yes, sir, could be even weirder i suppose. they could wear like mexican wrestling masks. that would make it weirder. that's how the republican committee starts on the republican side. if you're washing dishes or not looking at the screen or something, this next thing i'm going to show you is a visual. watch how ambassador bill taylor spnlds responds as the republican committee council keeps going down this road, trying to get him to agree what president trump was doing in ukraine with his cast of characters taking over and running a parallel foreign policy in opposition to the actual foreign policy -- he's trying to get bill taylor to say that wasn't all that weird, right? it wasn't totally nuts, was it? but like i said this is visual. you have to watch bill taylor'

kent, ambassador taylor, thank you for your service. i have a great deal of appreciation for your profession, you have very little direct contact with decisionmakers, tremendous amount of responsibility. and not a lot of authority to affect u.s. policy, bilateral engagements, you're trying to shepherd through issues with our allies. one example of that, ambassador taylor, you testified in your prior testimony that you have not had any contact with the president of the united states, is that correct? >> that's correct, sir. >> mr. kent, have you had any contact with the president of the united states? >> i have not. >> so not only no conversation with the president of the united states about ukraine, you've not had any contact with the president of the united states, correct? >> that's correct. >> okay. so you both know this impeachment inquiry is about the president of the united states, don't you? i mean, the man that neither one of you had any contact with, you're the first up witnesses. i just find that a little amazing that the firs

. >> in that call that taylor -- with new information from taylor confirmed that. literally the day of the 25th call with president zelensky you have the president calling one of his three amigos wanting to know what's up with the investigations, so, you know, it's like in plain sight. >> right. >> have any of the witnesses been able to talk about what trump's actual motivations were? >> well, they -- they don't -- i don't think the witnesses -- who knows what -- i mean, the president's motivation is sort of transparent. he wants to win the next election. he thought biden would be a factor and he wants to take him out. >> you know, two guys on the call have both been very clear, no pressure, no pushing, no linkage to investigations and both president zelensky and president trump have said. and of course president zelensky didn't pledge to do any investigations prior to the aid being released. the ukrainians didn't even know the aid was on hold at the time of the call. their first two witnesses, neither one of them's ever talked to the president, talked to chief of

taylor, ambassador taylor to pick up the ball and take it from there. i had gone as far as i could go. >> and you believed the president, correct? >> you know what? i'm not going to characterize whether i believed or didn't believe. i was trying to convey what he said on the phone. >> at that point in time the pause in the aid. the aid was paused for 55 days. there was a news article in "politico" on august 28th talking about it. by that point in time the president had been receiving calls from senators, he had been getting pressure to lift the aid, correct? >> that's what i understand, yes. >> i want to turn back to your opener on page 5 under -- when you talk about in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid i later came to believe the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement from ukraine committing to the investigations, correct? >> correct. >> and you acknowledge that this is speculation, right? >> it was a presumption. >> okay. it was a guess in fact i think you even said this morning. >

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taylor. he went into combat. he became an infantry, you know, combat leader going into the jungles of vietnam. he did all that with his intellectual advantage of not having to do that kind of grunt work. it's a very impressive character you had out there. it was impressive somebody said so. >> that's correct. bill taylor is a straight shooter and he's someone that cares about this country, cares about the integrity of our democracy, knows the difference between right and wrong. what you're going to see over the next few weeks is patriot after patriot come forward and just tell the truth to the american people. ultimately we'll have to make a decision what that means in terms of presidential accountability is that this case, this wrongdoing hiding in plain sight, it's about national security, the integrity of our elections, abuse of power and betrayal about and about the united states constitution and we're going to defend our democracy no matter what it takes. >> i've got to say keeping the focus here so the amer

serving diplomats, liam taylor and george kent. -- william taylor. in january of this year, that was a different phase than what happened during the summertime. was it normal to have someone who is a private citizen taking an active role in foreign diplomacy?” citizen taking an active role in foreign diplomacy? i did not find his particular engagement normal, no. mr taylor, you testify there are two channels, irregular and regular. what did you see as rudy giuliani's role in ukraine policy?” what did you see as rudy giuliani's role in ukraine policy? i came to see that mr giuliani had a large influence on the irregular channel. is that normal, to have a private citizen of the united states, take an active role in diplomacy?m citizen of the united states, take an active role in diplomacy? it is not normal. it is not unusual to ask for people outside the government to give opinions to help form the policies of the us government. it is unusual to have a person put input into the channel that goes contrary to us policy. thank you. mr turner, five min

taylor: yes, sir. then chairman schiff asked him are you aware that quid pro quo literally means this for that? ambassador taylor replies, i am. this is the very thing the president and his defenders have been saying did not happen. >> what i can tell you about the trump policy toward the ukraine, it was incoherent. it depends on who you talk to. they seem to be incapable of forming a quid pro quo. >> so essentially he's saying the president's policy was too incoherent to effectively blackmail ukraine. you just got to look at mob b s bosses. as a general rule, they aren't brain surgeons but they seem to do a pretty effective job of blackmail and extortion, quid pro quos. keeping 'em honest when you look at all the testimony so far, including gordon sondland's revised remarks, what graham said just doesn't ring true. the witnesses paint a clear picture of a systematic pressure campaign unfolding over several months, either bypassing normal channels or compromising them to get the job done. if this didn'

taylor: knology. coming up, teslas cyber truck debut. demos don't go exactly as planned, but the specs are sharp. we get the opinions. once estimates be analyst predictions. plus, one billion people's data is left unprotected on a google cloud server. we will speak to the hacker who discovered it. first, our top story. new musk unveiled teslas cyber truck with stainless steel exterior and armored glass that is not supposed to shatter, but the demo didn't go as planned. >> oh my god. well. maybe that was a little too hard. taylor: for more on the mishap and how shareholders reacted, i want to bring in a reporter who was at the event. before we get into the pomp and circumstance, how was the cyber truck? concept the futuristic pickup truck that elon musk has been teasing for 12 months. it is exactly as he described. --nk of the 1980's film in called blade runner served in november 2019. it rolls out on stage, it is big, boxy and looks nothing like a conventional pickup truck. it is really impressive on paper. 0-60, canto 14,000 pounds, mak

when you hear it from a career ambassador like ambassador taylor, it really does. that's the sort or thing that ring true for countries like ukraine and newly independent country that used to be apart of the soviet union, those are things that they almost aspire to and the idea they can have a country that they control and make their own decisions as to who they want to align themselves with. when you have a president of the united states who starts to act more vladimir putin and act like addi a dictator or the president likes to say the head of banana republic. you cause questions to arise in emerging democracy. they look back and say well, we are an emerging young democracy, is that how we want to look in our old age, do we want to look where president trump is able to make demands like guys like voou vladimir putin. that's damages that's done on a much deeper level. >> you got to go there. you go to the central square and kiev, we are doing democracy protests years ago. pro protesters were shot in the head. this is not theoretical stuff. it is a war happening ri

taylor: and i am taylor riggs. romaine: let's get a check on what's happening in the markets, the low-volume day, the post-thanksgiving day, you can see we are down, we had the success of record highs going into the thanksgiving holiday which will keep us up on 1%. caps are up at 3% of the week, they are up very strongly and we are seeing the selling in the treasury markets for another day. nothing remarkable, but a bit of to wristen it comes payments and the bluebird dollar spot index on that a day win streak that we saw for the dollar has been snapped, it is fluctuating between gains and losses. we came in looking at what happened in hong kong and china with those stocks taking a massive move lower. not much news, but definitely some skittishness. taylor: you mention those record highs, i'm in san francisco with aztec record highs, we are coming off of three returns of 1% on the nasdaq and that is also reflected in the vix. we are closing near the lowest level we have seen in more than a year but rising a bit tod

by taylor's staffer. this took place one day after the infamous july 25th phone call between president trump and president zelensky. during that july 26th call with sondland, the staffer said mr. trump explicitly asked about the status of investigations into the bidens and the aide said he overheard this call. well, he is set to now testify behind closed doors tomorrow. >> sources tell me that members of the committee did not know about this revelation until they saw

mocking career servants for taylor and kent. decorated veterans. it's almost as if it's sort of opposite. up is down and everything that we thought was bad was good. it's the opposite of american values. >> sometimes it only works it a certain point. i thought the big story out of that first day was that americans could take pride in the what trump calls the deep state. which is really just the professionals in the united states government. these people were honorable and smart. they were well informed. they were think about it. this was the acting ambassador to ukraine. in the hospital the former. he's currently. president trump ambassador to ukraine. this is currently president trumps deputy assistant secretary of state. they are responding to a congressional subpoena. they are being truthful and saying what the calling it like it was and kept saying we're not taking sides we're fact witnesses. in a way it was amazing demonstration of the american constitutional system working. not a lot of other countries where people who are subordinates of the

doesn't he, ambassador taylor? >> president zelensky is very sensitive to the views of the ukrainian people who, indeed are very attentive to ukrainian/u.s. politics, yes. >> so if president zelensky were to say, i had to kpich lacapitu these i was ready to go on cnn until the aid got restored, that would obviously be hurtful to him back home. would it not? >> he cannot afford to be seen to be deferring to any, any foreign leader. he is very competent in his own ain'ts and he knows that the ukrainian people expect him to be clear and defend ukrainian interests. >> mr. carson. >> thank you, chairman. my colleague touched briefly on the campaign to remove career diplomat ambassador yovanovitch. mr. kent, you stated in previous testimony that you were aware of the "campaign of slander" against the ambassador in retime, which basically unfolded in the media. where do you understand this misinformation campaign was coming from and who was potentially perpetuating it? >> to my understanding the then prosecutor general of

people like bill taylor and kent. >> l taylor i think is a critical witness. >> laura: but all it took was a secret weapon, congressman jim jordan who is added to the intel committee to set the record straight. >> you didn't sitting in on it and it was sent to the call? >> i didn't. >> this is what i can't believe. and you are their star witness. joining me now is jeff sessions, former attorney general, and it now again for a u.s. senate of alabama. what is your big take away from today? >> it certainly to me -- i agree with ken starr. this is a very serious time for america. it does not appear to me that they have the kind of evidence that would justify going forward. i called it a show trial. what's a show trial? when you decided that looks guilty. and this is the kind of thing that i think is concerning to a lot of people. the constitution says impeachment is not anything congress says it is, it says it's for conviction of treason and bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors. those are restraining laws in our constitution that restrains congress and they need to be faithful to their re

>> taylor, i don't know. congressman zeldin, did you have first-hand knowledge that confirms that the president was conditioning an investigation into burisma and alleged election ukrainian interference with the meeting with president zelensky. taylor, again, i had no conversations with the president. zeldin, so did you have any firsthand knowledge at all to support that in taylor, firsthand, meaning had i talked to the president? no. i'd never talked to the president or any other firsthand knowledge other than communication directly with the president. tayl taylor no communication with the president. >> there was none with giuliani, only sondland and volker. i know you were in the room when that happened, congresswoman. to make the point, taylor is testifying the truth, everything that he understands it, but he didn't ever speak to the president and never spoke to rudy giuliani. are you worried you're putting too much weight on what volker -- i'm sorry, on what taylor says? >> i am absolutely not worried at

taylor? >> well, mr. morrison testified that you relayed a conversation you had with the president in which the president told you no quid pro quo. but president zelensky must go to a microphone and announce these investigations and that he should want to. similarly, you told ambassador taylor that while the president said no quid pro quo, unless zelensky announced these investigations, they would be at a stalemate. presumably, a stalemate over the military assistance. do you have any reason to question those conversations that mr. morrison and ambassador taylor took notes about? >> well, i think it's tied to my text, mr. chairman. because in my text, i think i said something to the effect that he wants zelensky to do what he ran on, i believe his transparency, et cetera, et cetera. which was my clumsy way of saying he wanted -- he wanted these announcements to be made. >> again, ambassador, i'm not asking about your text message. i'm asking about what you relayed to ambassador taylor and mr. morrison abo