Congressional Democrats call two star witnesses to testify in the impeachment hearing,

Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent.

Meanwhile, Republican Jim Jordan reduced them both to a sputtering pile of mish in about 25 seconds.

We will examine everything you need to know about impeachment. Then a surprisingly sensible take

on transgenderism from a notoriously senseless source, Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton, unbelievable.

We will analyze the left's gender fault lines. Finally, the mailbag. All that and more,

Michael Knowles, and this is the Michael Knowles show.

By the way, I want you to know I'm considering titling my next best-selling blank book,

everything you need to know about impeachment, because you don't need to know anything about

impeachment because it's a complete forest. We found out that it was a forest today. I guess it's

not quite true. It's worth knowing exactly what's happening in the impeachment hearing,

just so you can see how transparently political, nakedly partisan,

hacky this whole thing is. It has no basis in the law, no basis in the Constitution,

no basis in reality whatsoever. Who are the key figures? The star witnesses that the Democrats

called forward today that were supposed to sink President Trump. Two guys, Ambassador Bill Taylor,

he was a soldier, he worked as a legislative assistant for the Democratic Senator Bill Bradley,

and then he worked at the State Department under Bush and Obama. He is key here because Ambassador

Taylor, Ambassador to Ukraine, had texted the Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland,

and asked him, are we now saying that security assistants and White House meetings are conditioned

on the investigations into Biden? He's the one who texted the Ambassador to the EU to say,

is there a quid pro quo more or less? Now what's funny is we already have testimony from Sondland

that there isn't a quid pro quo, and this is all just a big misunderstanding. Anyway, that is

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