devastating testimony to the news tonight at the same time. congress over ten hours. put another way, a man with can my side be firm? little to lose and no reason to lie. and over that time, ten hours, he told the story of what he saw, an effort to get a foreign country to announce an investigation of an american political family in return for u.s. military aide that was appropriated by congress. as the story goes, all of it was carried out from the top. his veteran ambassador bill taylor who wrote it was crazy to withhold security assistance from ukraine for help with a political campaign. in a 15-page opening statement, taylor described the effort to hold up congressional funds for ukraine and a refusal to meet its president until he agreed to publicly announce an investigation into the bidens and the 2016 election. taylor described trump s personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, as part of, quote, an irregular,
scheme, what was called a drug deal and what others called a possible quid pro quo. you have to wonder what did the justice department know. that, ladies and gentlemen, is the reason to look for katie benner s byline in the new york times. thank you so much for making time for us tonight. coming up, trump follows his own playbook. when the going gets tough, throw out a shiny object. more on that when we come back.
it is, in short, the worst thing humans can do to each other, the worst thing to imagine a family member of any of us going through. we should also mention, it was my privilege in june to visit the national memorial for peace and justice, in effect, our nation s lynching memorial. it is no less impactful than the holocaust museum, yad vashem in israel, than the 9/11 museum. i wish it was a rite of citizenship for all people to visit the memorial. having established that, jason, your take on the invocation of this powerful word in our national discourse today. well, first, brian, the reason this can happen so glibly on the part of this president is the lack of history most americans understand. lynching is still seen as this terrible thing that occasional the klan did.
it is murder by mob without due process of law, without any process, often accompanied by torture. it is, in short, the worst thing humans can do to each other, the worst thing to imagine a family member of any of us going through. we should also mention, it was my privilege in june to visit the national memorial for peace and justice, in equitffect, our nation s lynching memorial. it is no less impactful than the holocaust museum, than the 9/11 museum. i wish it was a rite of citizenship for all people to visit the memorial. having established that, jason, your take on the invocation of this powerful word in our national discourse today. well, first, brian, the reason this can happen so glibly on the part of this president is the lack of history most americans understand.
york times . indicate turkeys rudy wanted to be secretary of state. in ukraine he did one better, as it turns on out. tell us how much legal jeopardy he might be facing this evening. it looks like things are getting worse for giuliani as we saw with taylor s testimony today. more and more people have come out to say the not only was there a shadow diplomatic effort that was questionable and might lead to bribery, which, as we all know, is part of the impeachment section of the constitution, it s clear that giuliani was spearheading it. it s been said time and time again. of course the reason why this also creates jeopardy for trump is that giuliani is not a member of the government. he does not work for the government, and so only person from whom he can be taking orders plausibly is the president. we noted, i guess, two weeks ago, every weeknight during one given week he was on alternating fox news prime time shows, almost limitless air time.