we re going to hear a lot more about this phone call, revealed just today between president trump and eu ambassador gordon sondland. the president said today it s the first he s hearing about it. our next guest, andrew desiderio of politico, writes this about chairman schiff and his questioning of taylor about the call. the exchange was among the hearing s most powerful moments, in part because it was a brand new development and it punctuated democrats efforts to keep the camera on trump. with us for more of the aforementioned, andrew desiderio, congressional reporter for politico. and if you get that familiar feeling you might have seen him somewhere before, that is due to his shameless attempt to secure television air time by situating himself right over the shoulder of ambassador william taylor. andrew it was randomly assigned, i promise. i hope your friends and immediate family were happy to see you as they looked at you all day long. they were. help me out on this f
of politico, writes this about chairman schiff and his questioning of taylor about the call. the exchange was among the hearing s most powerful moments, in part because it was a brand new development and it punctuated democrats efforts to keep the camera on trump. with us for more of the aforementioned, andrew desiderio, congressional reporter for politico. and if you get that familiar feeling you might have seen him somewhere before, that is due to his shameless attempt to secure television air time by situating himself right over the shoulder of ambassador william taylor. andrew it was randomly assigned, i promise. i hope your friends and immediate family were happy to see you as they looked at you all day long. they were. help me out on this first question, and that was after a long day what s your big picture takeaway and did this move closer to the president today as the democrats intended it to?
yesterday and i knew everything he was doing and i approved whatever he was doing and i thought it was fine. now, macron asked specifically about the timeline and when he looped in president trump said this. so the day after i decided to invite at france minister zarif so i informed before making it, i informed president trump that it was my idea. not to involve the united states, i did it on my own. i m informed before making it president trump. he was informed at each minute about the solution. each time i informed president trump. it s all very helpful stuff for the tick tocks. i think a lot of focus on china and with very good reason, but the iran piece of this was fascinating for a number of different reasons. what s your big picture