2019 Elections Show Impeachment Might Not Boost GOP; More Inquiry Testimony Released

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🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Trump's campaign may be raising lots of money off impeachment, but it may not be firing up rural voters as Republicans thought it would. Plus, William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine, told congressional investigators that President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was acting in the president's interests. This episode: Congressional correspondent Susan Davis, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, justice correspondent Ryan Lucas, political reporter Jessica Taylor, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Griffin and I'm a Mount Pleasant South Carolina exit polling with the University School of the Low Country
0:07.3	This podcast was recorded at 321 p.m. On Wednesday, November 6th things may have changed by the time you hear and if so my classmates and I will know first
0:24.0	Hey there. It's the MBR politics podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover Congress
0:28.8	I'm Ryan Lucas. I cover the Justice Department and I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House
0:32.4	Don't worry Griffin. We're gonna get all into last night's election results
0:36.2	But first we have to talk about the latest release of deposition from the ongoing House in Peachment inquiry
0:42.7	Today's comes from William Taylor the top diplomat currently working in Ukraine
0:47.7	Tam remind us how Taylor fits into the narrative so Taylor is this sort of lifelong public servant who was recruited
0:56.0	by Mike Pompeo and others by the Trump administration to go sort of fill in as the top diplomat in Ukraine after the US ambassador to Ukraine was
1:06.5	Drummed out of the country and part by the president's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani
1:10.9	So Taylor is someone who Democrats see as a very credible witness in all of this
1:16.9	Who has a lot of firsthand knowledge as we are seeing through this transcript of
1:21.1	Many of the events that we have heard about leading up to and after the call
1:26.6	He's also someone who was not dropped into Ukraine with a blank slate
1:30.0	He's someone who had served as an ambassador there before and so he's familiar with the players and how the country works and one of the things
1:34.9	He had testified to when he came in was that he wanted a commitment from the Trump administration to take the job that it would
1:41.4	Maintain a strong US commitment to the security of Ukraine. That's right
1:45.0	It had been the the policy of
1:47.0	Republicans Democrats Congress administrations going back for years to provide strong support to Ukraine
1:54.8	Because Ukraine is seen as a sort of a linchpin and what how's the best way of it?
1:59.0	sort of a barrier
2:00.6	Critical ally full work because Ukraine is on the front lines of this sort of
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