that would amount to pressure, bribery, to a. no matter quid pro quo. as to ms. cooper s testimony, you were there, congressman ratcliff went back and said, there are headlines that are saying what you said is that you got emails about the hold that day. he walked her through those emails, she read them verbatim, quote from the text, said, there was not a presumption that there was a hold and that is what they were asking about. when she clarified that, it doesn t match the headline. no, it matches exactly what was going on, they were expecting assistance on the same day the president is putting pressure on the ukrainians to investigate president vice president biden, they are learning that security assistance as an issue, and also, just to back up a little bit, to your point, president zelensky, as ambassador sondland said, was in an awful position. he was a new president who needed a meeting with the united states and people in ukraine were dying every day that they did not have
knowledge, no. the bombshell turned out to be a dud. finally there s a man who replaced yovanovitch, acting diplomat bill taylor. bill taylor is the witness we are told the white house fears. because he tells a very clear story of what he saw as a shakedown, un-american shakedown of ukraine to get an investigation of the bidens. laura: swing and a miss. his closed-door testimony contained this inconvenient fact, congressman ratcliff says based on your knowledge no one in the ukrainian government became aware of a hold on military aid until august 29th. ambassador taylor responded that s my understanding. that means ukraine had no idea there was a hold on military aid
the bombshell turned out to be a dud. t finally there s a man who replaced yovanovitch, acting diplomat bill taylor. bill taylor is the witness we are told the white house fears. because he tells a very clear story s of what he saw as a shakedown, un-american shakedown of ukraine to get an investigation of the bidens. laura: swing and a miss. his closed-door testimony contained this inconvenient fact, congressman ratcliff says based on your knowledge no one in the ukrainian government became aware of a hold on military aid until august 29th. ambassador taylor responded that s my understanding. that means ukraine had no idea there was a hold on military aid until over a month after trump s call with their president.
chairman, also denied republican claims that impeachment rules are unfair. andy, let s start with the notion of, where is the crime? what is the crime? as congressman ratcliff was pointing out, do you have any witnesses yet? we haven t seen any. that say there s evidence of a crime? with the exception of maybe bill taylor who says quid pro quo. andy: my head is about to explode. harris: wasn t my question? [laughter] andy: just watching all this! [laughs] they can have what is it, 330 million people in the country? they can all read the transcript and they can all give a different expression of what the transcript means. the fact is, we have the transcript. we are reasonably confident what was said. we don t need 20 people who are listening to the conversation and could tell us what it all means. we can figure out for ourselves what it all means. secondly, all this talk about the crime to you don t need a crime for impeachment.
rules, i can t tell you what he said but i can tell you what he didn t say. and neither he nor any other witness has provided testimony that the ukrainians were aware that military aid was being withheld. you can t have a quid pro quo with no quo. brian: and 15 pages that we do know that emanuel got that bill taylor put and read out loud they also back what ratcliff said. bret: you don t hear that side you hear about detailed disastrous testimony by taylor. that s behind closed doors so we don t have that perspective. i think it was interesting he said he could not tell us something that he. steve: but he can say what was not said. we can tell you that the number one book on amazon right now is that one right there. three days at the brink, fdr s. ainsley: number one? steve: able to win world war ii. tells of a secret meeting between world leaders. also coming out today a young reared s edition as well. bret: 9 to 14-year-olds.