make their testimony because one of the things i ve always said if you even go back to the nixon days, those that lied went to jail. and so people got to start os thinking about their own interests.eo they know that the president s not going to stand up behind them, so you re going to see more of the truth coming out as to what the president has done and how he continues to do it. congressman gregory meeks, one of the front row witnesses toro history in this impeachmen inquiry. thank you for coming in and joining us tonight. ned price, thank you very much. mieke eoyang is going to stay with us for more. when we come back gordon sondland who apparently brought his ambassadorship with a $1 million donation to donald trump s inauguration after actually being an opponent to donald trump s candidacy, took a stunning move when he changed his testimony in a deposition after the fact by adding some written material to it. d
republican questioning because there isn t any.an it s like there s just nothing there.e republicans don t release highlights of the deposition because there are no republican highlights of the depositions. one of the things that the republican committee council spent a great deal of time on ts was the question of a subpoena to ambassador taylor. and he clarified in there by the way, totally irrelevant, right? like why use your time on that? right. but for our purposes right now, he clarified that when ambassador taylor did get a subpoena, the state department did not say to him defy the subpoena. at that point the state department pulled back and na said just sort of pulled away from that. but before that they were saying don t go. but when they got the subpoena the state department goes hands off.he so that s one process that was revealed pretty clearly in that testimony. this is white house officials, dod officials, state department officials. tomorrow we re going to have
fourth impeachment investigation of a president in american history. a transcript of ambassador taylor s deposition to the impeachment inquiry was released today. it shows that ambassador taylor testified that he threatened to quit if president trump te continued to withhold military aid to ukraine. ambassador taylor said that the trump position was that the to president of ukraine would be um granted a white house meeting with the president of the united states, and ukraine would receive military assistance d mandated by congress only if ukraine helped the trump re-election campaign by investigating joe biden. chairman adam schiff pointed out that the trump administration fit the literal definition of quid pro quo. chairman schiff said if they didn t do this, the investigations, they weren t going to get that, the meeting and the military assistance. ambassador taylor, that was my clear understanding. security assistance money would not come until the president committed to pursue the
gregory meeks, they re going to attack chairman schiff, they re going to attack what they re going to call your unfair, go democratic process that has got us to this point. they will attack the fact that the deposition was private. they ll attack the fact the hearing was public.ta they ll just attack, attack, attack because i can t think of anything else they can do on tv for donald trump, to impress donald trump which is the audience of one they ll be playing to. they can t do anything. and it s the old saying, you know, if you have the facts on your side, you argue the facts.y if you have the law on your side, you argue the law. if you have neither then you just throw up distractions. and they are going to be so compelled to be backed up. because when you look at what the president did, he did not care about the relationship with the united states and ukraine at all. the only focus he had was himself and to get dirt, abusing his power, extortion as
gregory meeks of new york. he s a member of the house foreign affairs committee. he attended taylor s deposition. and an msnbc national security contributor. former spokesman for the national security council in the administration. he is an msnbc national security contributor. and congressman meeks, you were in theco deposition so none of this news to you, but for us to finally see exactly what transpires in these depositions and i have to say for me, and i correct me if i m wrong about this, but the striking thing about it is what i don t hear from republicans t what i m read, this is the republicans chance. they ve got william taylor who has devastating evidence against donald trump and they did nothing. did i miss something? you didn t miss anything. what they saw and what the american people will see when they testify is a dedicated public servant who all he cares about is the love of this