that s that s a good day at the trump white house. so there s that. but then there s also the human reaction from these witnesses who, again, are mostly longtime public servants and experts in their field. at one point in his testimony new york congressman sean patrick maloney asked ambassador bill taylor, quote, what was your emotional reaction to these events? taylor gives a pretty sort of stunning response. he says, quote, i think ukraine is important objectively to the united states. the emotional piece is based on my time in ukraine in 2006, 2009, when traveling around the country i got to know ukrainians and their frustrations and difficulties and those kinds of things. and coming back and seeing it now where they have an opportunity, they ve got a young president, young prime minister, young parliament. the prime minister is 35 years old. this new government has appealed to young people so idealistic, so pro-west, so pro-united states, pro-europe, that i feel an emotional atta
and he asks manafort call him. you ll also hear roger stone emailed steve bannon. he told bannon that trump could still win, but time was running out. and he said he knew how to win this, but, quote, it ain t pretty. roger stone knew how to win this, and he was telling that to the trump campaign ceo, but his way in his own words, quote, ain t pretty. now at the same time in august you ll hear roger stone was bragging. he was bragging publicly and bragging loudly and bragging repeatedly he was in contact with wikileaks. that he had a go-between that was telling him information about what was coming that he had an intermediary. stone regularly updated people in the trump campaign at the senior levels about whatever information he thought he had about wikileaks. make no mistake roger stone could have easily told the truth to the intelligence committee. stone could have testified he had many e-mails and texts about wikileaks and julian assange. including the ones you see here today. he cou
superiority of western civilization over islam. he says, quote, mr. berlusconi did nothing other than state the obvious inferiority of islam. he also wrote how offensive it was that the matthew shepherd murder got so much attention. that definitely didn t need as much attention as it got. he also opined on the movement against campus rape. against rape and sexual assault on college campuses. he said campus gyno-centrists are throwing around these accusations but there s no similar leeway for men. and there s of course his law review article entitled ethno nationalism and liberal democracy in which he argues, quote, the solidarity underlying democratic polities rests in large part on ethnic identification. surely it does not serve the cause of liberal democracy to ignore this reality. the article goes onto argue that ethnically heterogenous
this is aaron zelensky talking. you may recognize his name, he was one of the prosecutors who worked on the mueller investigation. here s zelensky. he says, quote, we are here today because one man obstructed congress investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. in a critical investigation of national importance the defendant, roger stone, repeatedly lied under oath to a congressional committee and then tampered with a witness to cover up his tracks. now you ll hear in 2016 the democratic national committee, which is the organization that runs the democratic party of the united states, they announced their computer system had been hacked by the russian government. you ll hear not long after that a website called wikileaks began to release thousands of e-mails that were related to the dnc. after wikileaks began releasing these dnc e-mails you ll also hear that the defendant, roger stone, started bragging he was in contact with wikileaks and he knew what wikileaks plan
i cared about this country, i didn t want to see it screwed up. i wanted to see it succeed. congressman sean patrick maloney says, quote, and you didn t want to see it screwed up by some political agenda coming from washington, is that fair to say? ambassador taylor says, what i didn t want to do is have u.s. assistance to ukraine be blocked or suspended for no good reason i could see. and there are some bad reasons that i didn t want to see that blocked. bill taylor is going to be the first witness in the public testimony that has just been announced in the impeachment proceedings for one week from today. congressman sean patrick maloney joins us next. 448,134 to be exact. they answered 410 questions in 8 categories about vehicle quality. and when they were done, chevy earned more j.d. power quality awards across cars, trucks and suvs than any other brand over the last four years.