there s a transcript. is it confusing? it s not confusing if you ve paid close attention, but of course the other side has tried to really muddy the waters here. but if you watch taylor testify, put his hand in the air, understand his background, understand he s a trump appointee and listened to the facts, then all of a sudden the reason the president is being impeached becomes very clear. right, and michelle, you ve followed this closely, you ve been writing about it for the times. everyone remembers these texts because they re really striking, and they read as certain things do when things get hot, they read like messages people were sending thinking about how they might look later. but it was taylor who said, quote, as i said on the phone, like waving around, hey, i already objected to this, quote, i think it s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. and i want to go back to our simple chart that we opened the evening with, which, if you loo
information? does the top diplomat for this administration, bill taylor for ukraine, does he actually know what was going on? he thought that and from everything that he could see that this was that aid was being held up in exchange for these investigations. but now they re calling even that into question. well, as they call it into question, i want to turn to some of your expert questioning. this is your first time on the beat but we do keep a close eye on which questions that work and don t. so first for you and then following from david this incredible moment in the briefing room, obviously several reporters engaged on it. here you were going back and forth when mick mulvaney first went full mulvaney. take a look. dnc server. that it s okay for the u.s. government to hold up aid and require a foreign government to investigate political opponents of the president?
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now you re saying the president of the united states, the chief law enforcement person cannot ask somebody to cooperate with an ongoing public investigation into wrongdoing? that s just bizarre to me. are you saying that the money that was held up that that had nothing to do with the bidens? the money held up had absolutely nothing to do with biden. over the course of that appearance, he ultimately conceded and defended the bribery plot. get over it, then walked it back. with the benefit now of some time and you re in that same very room, how is that playing out for the white house as other officials seem to be going back to full mulvaney? well, it hasn t really played out very well for the white house in the sense that they can t get one message, so mulvaney had to walk that back. during that when i was asking him those questions, he said there were three things there were three reasons why they held up the money. one of them was that open investigation into the dnc serv
vindman, experts have called him something of an unimpeachable witness in this impeachment probe or today s news, this new full transcript from bill taylor and trump aide tim morrison. that s five officials confirming the bribery plot. show me the proof, consider it shown say the democrats. now, what about some of trump s most influential media defenders. they have a different issue. they ve already boxed themselves, some of them into denying bribery because before trump made his defense clear, they went on record saying that if there was this evidence of a bribery plot like conditioning money on going after biden, that would be wrong. if the president said, you know, i ll give you the money but you ve got to investigate joe biden, that is really off the rails wrong. right. but if it s something else, you know, it would be nice to know what it is. off the rails wrong, what does that same fox anchor say today? well, he s going full mulvaney with the, well, this is just