about. they don't want to discuss whether there was, in fact, a trade off here, an improper extortion of the ukrainians by the president. >> let's get into that a little bit horse. we have some republican reaction on that issue of quid pro quo which is at the heart of this probe. and it's a response that keeps on changing. listen to this. >> in this transcript there's no quid pro quo. there's no improper leverage. the overall tone of this transcript is that it's mutually laudatory. >> make your own decision but from a quid pro quo aspect of the phone call there's nothing there. >> if there was a quid pro quo it wasn't a very effective one. >> there are perfectly appropriate quid pro quos and there are inappropriate quid pro quos. >> i'm not going to read these transcripts. the whole process is a joke. what i can tell you about the trump policies towards the ukraine, it was incoherent.