thing. only the republic is counting on that. bill taylor, the career diplomat in kiev in ukraine. the acting ambassador after the other ambassador was brought back to washington. do you think there is an explicit quid pro quo, congressman, in the text messages that volker shared? well, bill taylor compressed concern there was a quid pro quo. the president said i have a favor to ask though. i would call that a quid prothough. and that was president zelensky. so in the history of quid pro quos, no one has said i have a quid pro quo for you. i think the president came pretty close. that is not even the standard. i think you see in the presidential confession that he was leveraging u.s. help for ukrainians in exchange for them helping him in his election. what are you hearing privately from republicans who have seen the same evidence you have? i talked to one republican today who did express concern. just wanted to make sure the