that s right. or a shakedown if you will with the ukraine. what can we expect from him? is he going to be able to lay out a clear case of a shakedown? so what we re going to with bill taylor and i think all of these personal experience here. which makes sense. they re not going to say yes, for sure i can see the whole picture. they ll paint us a piece and another piece and another piece. the important thing here i think to remember with bill taylor, people we ll get to. the story all of the people told in according to the transcript of the closed door testimony i would say it s remarkably consistent. it s told from their perspective. right? but it confirms the whistleblower account contrary to trump who says the whistleblower is wrong. there s no evidence of. it confirms concurrent experiences in there where
jewish people in the community know they are not welcome and according to him they should leave or they will die. he went onto suggest to under cover agents they use explosive devices to destroy the synagogue and get it off the map. so there s lots to discuss. guy smith is here. and frank bruni. good to have you all on. all onset. how did we manage that. frank, let s talk about the transcripts. they back up the whistleblower account and the details are jarring. this is what te former ambassador to ukraine asked about comments she was going to go through some things on the july 25th call. what did you understand that to mean? i didn t know what it meant i was very concerned i still am. did you feel threatened? yes. you have a u.s. ambassador saying she felt threatened by the president of the united states. what s going on sno.
do something that would let jewish people in the community know they are not welcome and according to him they should leave or they will die. he went onto suggest to under cover agents they use explosive devices to destroy the synagogue and get it off the map. so there s lots to discuss. guy smith is here. and frank bruni. good to have you all on. all onset. how did we manage that. frank, let s talk about the transcripts. they back up the whistleblower account and the details are jarring. this is what the former ambassador to ukraine asked about comments she was going to go through some things on the july 25th call. what did you understand that to mean? i didn t know what it meant i was very concerned i still am. did you feel threatened? yes. you have a u.s. ambassador saying she felt threatened by the president of the united states. what s going on?
was developing, this is after the whistle blower account became public. my question to you is, how was there no discussion at the senior levels of the state department? it s very odd. i read his deposition testimony. he asked secretary pompeo three times about the ambassador. there was no response. he brought to the attention the senior most officials in the state department the memorandum stating there may have been false statements made to congress, there was no response to it. you have to surmise that discussions were going on, but just not with the career officials, they were being kept among the political officials, they weren t including a career official like the. year veteran, ambassador mcginley. here s my last question. this is a one of these transcripts becoming public. these are only two people.
you first. william taylor opening statement offers confirmation of the whistleblower account of a quid pro quo. contradicting the president s claims. how damming is taylor s testimony? it s pretty damming. the transcript of the phone call that we have of the president with the president of the ukraine. was damming enough. now you re filling in the details and eventually the testimony that we heard today will be public. he will testify on the record at some point. and you will have i guess a west point grad with 30 years in the foreign service saying that he knows that the president or believes strongly the president committed an impeachable offense. this is damming testimony and there s going to be more coming. you have to tell me, you spoke to a lot of republicans today and say they re saying the same thing about the president. what is it? i think a lot of republicans in the senate don t like this president. and i think they re kind of hedging their bets.