Top U.S. Diplomat To Ukraine Testifies; Making Sense Of The Quid Pro Quo; Political Firestorm

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🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Top U.S. Diplomat Testifies Pres. Trump Wanted Probe Of Bidens And 2016, In Return For Ukraine Aid; Testimony From Top U.S. Diplomat In Ukraine Contradicts Earlier Testimony From Pres. Trump's Ambassador To The EU; Top U.S. Diplomat To Ukraine Testifies On Specifics Of A Quid Pro Quo For Pres. Trump; WH: Top Diplomat's Testimony Part Of A 'Coordinated Smear Campaign' By 'Radical Unelected Bureaucrats'; Democrats: Inconsistencies From Ambassador To The EU, Suggest They Might Need To Have Him Speak Again To Committee; Sen. McConnell On Whether Pres. Trump Is Lying About Phone Call: "You'' Have To Ask Him"; Sen. Graham Backs President Trump: "This Is A Lynching In Every Sense"; Pres. Trump Compares Impeachment Probe To A "Lynching"; Revealing Testimony Before Senate By U.S. Special Envoy To Syria; U.S. Special Envoy To Syria Tells Senators Pres. Trump's Decision to Withdraw U.S. Troops Came As A Total SurpriseTo learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening. It is entirely possible that this day may turn out to be one of the most
0:05.2	consequential days in the impeachment inquiry, as well as possibly this presidency.
0:09.8	Testimonious on Capitol Hill behind closed doors is being called that significant by some
0:13.4	who heard it. The country's top diplomat in Ukraine told Congress, oh, told Congress.
0:18.5	And by the way, he's a West Point graduate of Vietnam vet who served this country for
0:22.4	50 years. He revealed in great detail, and in no uncertain terms, that President Trump
0:27.6	himself directed his people to push for a quid pro quo with the president of Ukraine.
0:33.5	Military aid and a White House visit in exchange for investigating the firm tied to Joe Biden's
0:38.2	son Hunter and investigating conspiracy theory about the 2016 election.
0:43.1	Charge DeFares, William Taylor, described an effort operating outside normal diplomatic
0:48.0	channels by which the president, through his TV lawyer Rudy Giuliani, the European Union
0:52.7	ambassador, Gordon Sondland, a Trump supporter, energy secretary Rick Harry and others sought
0:58.0	such an arrangement with Ukraine's president Zelensky.
1:02.0	In short, Taylor's testimony, which just wrapped up, describes the very thing the president
1:06.5	and his supporters have been denying for weeks now.
1:10.3	There was no quid pro quo. It's just turned into a full blown threat, a full blown quid
1:15.0	pro quo, and I just don't see it. And there was never any quid pro quo.
1:19.3	There's no quid pro quo. No quid pro quo. No quid pro quo. There is no pro quo.
1:27.0	Well, keep it in mind, I mean, the White House's own transcript of that July 25th conversation,
1:32.6	which is a rough transcript, not word for word, between the president and the Ukrainian
1:36.6	president already makes pretty much a mockery out of those denials. Today, Ambassador
1:41.5	Taylor's account makes it even planer. Everything Taylor says he was told, everything depended
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