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🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Another installment from Impeachment, a podcast hosted by our WNYC colleague Brian Lehrer. This one digs into the testimony of US emissary to Ukraine, William Taylor.

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0:00.0	This is Impeachment, a daily podcast from WNYC. I'm Brian Lehrer. It's Wednesday, October 23rd.
0:12.9	So we've been covering all this congressional testimony about the Trump-Ukraine scandal, right?
0:18.5	Drip, drip, drip, a little new damning testimony every day
0:21.6	toward conclusions of bribery or extortion of Ukraine, quid pro quos, if you prefer that term,
0:29.2	and for what? For illegally soliciting 2020 campaign help from a foreign government? You know these
0:35.7	basics by now. But if it's been drip, drip, drip,
0:39.3	yesterday was more like a geyser, a burst pipe, a waterfall.
0:43.8	The witness was Trump's current ambassador to Ukraine, William Taylor.
0:48.4	He's the guy, Secretary of State Pompeo,
0:50.4	handpicked to replace the previous ambassador,
0:53.8	Marie Ivanovitch, because remember she
0:56.0	wasn't pro-investigations enough. William Taylor testified yesterday, and his 15-page opening
1:02.3	statement was released to the Washington Post. In a detailed day-by-day account, Ambassador
1:08.7	Taylor described being told, especially by Trump's EU ambassador
1:12.6	Gordon Sondland, that Trump wanted Ukraine's President Zelensky to make a public statement
1:18.1	of his determination to get to the bottom of any corruption involving the Bidens and the Ukrainian
1:24.8	energy company, Burisma, that Hunter Biden was on the board of, and a theory that
1:30.3	Ukraine, not Russia, hacked the DNC's emails in 2016, and it was to help Hillary Clinton, not
1:36.7	Donald Trump.
1:37.9	According to Taylor, Trump wanted President Zelensky to name these investigations out loud
1:43.6	in a public pronouncement.
1:46.0	Taylor's 15-page statement is online if you want to read the day-by-day log of what he saw
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