All right, thank you, Anderson. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Prime Time, the first public

impeachment hearings bring a surprise and the biggest test yet for Democrats trying to prosecute

their case against the president. What mattered and why? Let's test the players and hear from the best

minds about where this process goes from here and what will history say about what happened today?

What do you say? Let's get after it.

We have some new facts. Top of the list, something Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine,

says he didn't even know about when he testified behind closed doors last month. Turns out,

one of his aides came forward to tell him about a call, the aid overheard between President Trump

and Ambassador Gordon Sunland. Now, 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. Chairman Schiff believes

Taylor's words today show that the instructions for Ukraine came, quote, from the president on down.

Here's why. In the presence of my staff at a restaurant,

Ambassador Sunland 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 Sunland about

the investigations. Ambassador Sunland told President Trump the Ukrainians were ready to move forward.

Following the call with President Trump, the member of my staff asked Ambassador Sunland what

President Trump thought about Ukraine. Ambassador Sunland responded that President Trump cares more about

the investigations of Biden, which Giuliani was pressing for.

To be clear, as you heard at the end, the investigations being discussed as of interest to the

president were being pushed by Rudy Giuliani, okay? Taylor said today that Giuliani's work

created an irregular policy channel. Who else was in it? Sunland, Rick Perry, Kurt Volker,

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