taylor referenced him throughout his own testimony in which taylor raised serious concern that aid had been when would by the president. the president was pushing for those investigations into his political rivals. in the statement that section we obtained from the statement today it says in the preparation for my appearance today, i reviewed the statement ambassador taylor provided this inquiry on october 22nd, 2019. i can confirm that the substance of the statement as it relates to conversations he and i had is accurate. now he goes on to say there are some differences, two small differences, one of which is he recalls a conversation he had with the eu ambassador, gordon sondland in which sondland said it would be sufficient for president trump to release security aid it s sufficient to the pursue investigations by ukraine if that announcement for the investigations were made by the ukrainian prosecutor, not president zelensky as taylor testified last week. that s a pretty minor