Shorts: What William Taylor’s Testimony Adds to the Ukraine Story
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🗓️ 23 October 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Amb. William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testified on Tuesday in a close-door meeting with Congressional committees involved in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump. Tuesday afternoon, the Washington Post published a copy of Taylor’s opening statement. Scott R. Anderson analyzed that statement in an article for Lawfare, explaining what it adds to what we know of L’Affaire Ukrainienne. In the latest edition of the Lawfare Podcast Shorts, you can listen to that article in-full, read by the author, Lawfare’s own Scott R. Anderson.
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| 0:27.2 | and the aftermath. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Scott R. Anderson and this is the LawFair podcast. |
| 0:34.8 | Yesterday congressional investigators heard closed door testimony from Ambassador William Taylor, |
| 0:40.9 | the Charger DeFair for the US Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine. |
| 0:44.6 | The Washington Post, however, secured and released a copy of Taylor's opening testimony, |
| 0:48.8 | which revealed sort of details of the unfolding Ukraine scandal. |
| 0:52.4 | Here's the analysis that I wrote for LawFair entitled What Bill Taylor's testimony adds |
| 0:56.5 | to the Ukraine story. |
| 0:58.6 | On Tuesday, October 22nd, congressional committee investigating LaFair Ukraine and her long |
| 1:04.1 | a way to testimony from Ambassador William Taylor, the career diplomat who has spent the |
| 1:08.0 | last four months running the US Embassy in Kiev, following President Trump's removal |
| 1:11.9 | of Ambassador Maria Yovanovich. |
| 1:15.4 | While Taylor testified behind closed doors, his opening statement provides an unvarnished |
| 1:19.7 | view of the motivations that appear to have driven Trump and others to push for investigations |
| 1:24.2 | into Trump's political rivals and threaten to withhold Ukrainian security assistance. |
| 1:29.4 | The result is a far uglier picture than what has emerged from prior testimony, one that |
| 1:33.9 | bears directly on the question of corrupt motive that lies at the heart of the House's |
| 1:37.3 | ongoing impeachment inquiry. |
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