U. S. Negotiated cease fire expired. They are plotting the way forward now that the u. S. s influence in the region has been vastly diminished. A Top Administration official will be widely criticized. Republican in congress including Mitch Mcconnell are not happy about that situation. As historic as those developments are, there is yet another piece of breaking news that is just as damaging if not more so for the president. It reads like a road map for the apparently quid pro quo with ukraine. The Washington Post is the only news outlet that has obtained the full Opening Statement from bill taylor whose deposition is hes behind closed doors. Right now, hes the current acting u. S. Ambassador to ukraine and he is providing what appears to be bombshell testimony testifying that its made very clear that the president was making both a white house meeting and the hundreds of millions of dollars in the military aid contingent on ukraine publicly committing to investigate his political rival
they don t want to leave stones unturned knowing this is the one big shot on impeachment. it s a very long way of saying still nobody knows. they would like to get this done fast, but there is no deadline. there is no hard cap in which this process will stop. the president used a racistrope to try to express grievance of the day. more importantly, are they aware of how damaging the testimony appears to be? we ll wait for him to weigh in later. i was just talking to some officials moments ago. they seem more concerned with the process and the timing that garret is talking about than the actual substance of what s coming out each day of all this testimony. we should note that a lot of this testimony corroborates other testimony. today we got a second source on this idea that fiona hill was saying jon bolten was referring to giuliani s drug deal.