it reads like a diary, jake. thanks so much. let s chew over this. and laura i want to start from one section of the testimony that i found interesting. question, is your testimony that, hey, you don t make these public statements about these two political investigations we want, you re not getting this meeting? you make these statements and you get the meeting. you don t make the statements you don t. is that your understanding of the state affairs in july of 2019 and ambassador taylor s response is yes. that s pretty directly a quid pro quo. that is we ll give you this, that your country needs, in exchange for this, which the president wants for political reasons here at home. right. and we heard about taylor outlining multiple examples of quid pro quo when he first testified before the full transcript was released and now americans get to read it with their own eyes and then again in a week s time he s going to publicly testify we are told. so that could potentially result in a
damaging might his testimony be as we were just hearing from glenn, why some of the words that have been used to describe what bolton and how bolton reacted to some of the ongoings there in the white house. glenn astutely noted, richard, that the characterization of the interactions between sondland and mulvaney with ukrainian officials back in early july of 2019 were criminal in nature. richard, you used the word if. that s the key word in this analysis. whether or not john bolton gets in front of the committees to testify in private. we know that the deputy national security adviser working with john bolton, his lawyer filed a declaratory action on friday indicating that cupper man needed to know from the court system whether or not he s allowed to testify. we do know that kuperman s lawyer is representing bolton as well. he may take the same tact, go to court on his own initiative to get a determination whether or
about what the facts are. when i see those statements that those guys both signed on to today, i thought, you know what? how interesting that they are more concerned with saying this is a political witch hunt and immediately going to spin when that s exactly what they ve been doing for two and a half years. it s just remarkable to me. jason: whip scalise, i ve got to ask you this question. it runs in parallel because you ve heard earlier there is all this key to these people in the trump administration because of impeachment. what i don t understand, i wrote an op-ed for fox news. three times, the democrats tried to bring up impeachment to the floor house and three times it was defeated including july of 2019. how is it that anybody can actually call it an impeachment proceeding when the last floor action that happened was a defeat over 137 democrats that voted against proceeding with impeachment. that s the last action on the floor the house.
when i see those statements that those guys both signed on to today, i thought, you know what? how interesting that they are more concerned with saying this is a political witch hunt and immediately going to spin when that s exactly what they ve been doing for two and a half years. it s just remarkable to me. jason: whip scalise, i ve got to ask you this question. it runs in parallel because you ve heard earlier there is all this key to these people in the trump administration because of impeachment. what i don t understand, i wrote an op-ed for fox news. three times, the democrats tried to bring up impeachment to the floor house and three times it was defeated including july of 2019. how is it that anybody can actually call it an impeachment proceeding when the last floor action that happened was a defeat over 137 democrats that voted against proceeding with impeachment. that s the last action on the floor the house.
those guys both signed on to today, i thought, you know what? how interesting that they are more concerned with saying this is a political witch hunt and immediately going to spin when that s exactly what they ve been doing for two and a half years. it s just remarkable to me.ct jason: whip scalise, i ve got to ask you this question. it runs in parallel because you heard earlier, mr. clapper, saying there is all this key to these people in the trump administration because of impeachment. what i don t understand, i wrote an op-ed for fox news. three times, the democrats tried to bring up impeachment to the floor house and three times it was defeated, including july of 2019.nt so how is it that anybody can actually call it an impeachment proceeding, when the last floor action that happened was a defeat 137 democrats that voted against proceeding with impeachment. that s the last action on the floor the house.