this this nonsense that the republicans have been pushing. that this was a generic concern about corruption. that they just wanted investigations. ambassador taylor chose specific words. he said this was about political gain. this was about advantage in a political campaign. so my questions were designed to get at exactly what he meant. he didn t say investigations. he didn t say just burisma. he made crystal clear that he knew that there was a quid pro quo being demanded. he puts it together very clearly. a quid pro quo that would benefit the president personally, politically, and it s wrong. you know, another thing that jumped out at us, apparently taylor testified that in june gordon sondland requested that the phone call not be transcribed at all. that no notes or there wouldn t be any monitoring of it at all. that seemed to be new to us. right. and there s a term for that. it s called consciousness of