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One idea can unlock a breadth of solutions. Its available online. Investigations of biden in 2016 everybody should read it. Its a 15 page opening at 3m, we are solving problems that improve lives. Statement. Its rukmini here from the New York Times. Election interference and that trump insisted that the president zelensky should want president go to a microphone and say hes opening investigations to do this himself. Of biden and 216 election taylor wrote that Gordon Sondland told him quote everything was depending on hey, you see this . Interference and that he should zelensky making a Public Statement including security want to do this himself. He wrote that the Eu Ambassador assistance. In his testimony taylor called told him quote everything was it a confusing and unusual arrangement for making u. S. Dependent on him making a Public Policy toward ukraine. He told lawmakers sondland tried statement including security. 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Author joel stein joins us now with his new book in defense of the check. Bidens. So Jonathan Lemire, what bill he said he did not recall any beyond the notsoroutine cases. Elitism. Great to have you on the show. Thanks for buying so many comcast business is helping doctors discussions with anyone about books i didnt know this many copies taylor laid out is a quid pro investigating the bidens. Provide care in whole new ways. Existed. You got one for me . Quo, an explicit quid pro quo in all working with a new generation of technologies its a great place for books. His testimony. Taylor the top envoy to the thank you. Powered by our gigspeed network. I know you know walter ukraine was asked to go by isaacson pretty well, so because beyond technology. There is human ingenuity. He hired me, yeah. What . He hired you . Yeah. Pompeo. Taylor kept detailed notes and okay, well, you better not records and recounted. Every day, comcast business is helping businesses the room was spell bound as he and the top envoy was asked to fail at this question. Walter has the first question. Went through his testimony and go beyond the expected. Went through the time after time go to keep detailed notes and walter, take it. Where he had disturbing as he to do the extraordinary. Hey, joel. Joel, i mean, weve known each put it, disturbing conversations take your business beyond. Records and recounted yesterday other for more decades than with other members of the administration and the state the room was spell bound as he youd like to admit youve been went through the testimony and alive, and you know how much i department, how he learned about liked your book, but what Rudy Giuliani and as he put it the time after time where he had particularly surprised me about this parallel Foreign Policy to as he put it disturbing your book was when you went in ukraine, the exchanges with conversations with other members of the administration and the to certain small towns, certain state department. Ambassador bolton about what was how he learned about rudy places, and your mind changed. Happening there when bolton you actually evolved in your tried to keep things on more thinking. Giuliani. The exchanges with ambassador regular channels, and then to give us an example of some town spell out what is largely the quid pro quo, what the president bolton, the security adviser about what was happening there you went to where you actually met people and said, okay, my has time and time again denied as well and he tried to keep suggesting that the president mind has been opened up a would only authorize this things on the more regular little. Oh, this is great. Military aid toed ukraine if it channels and then to spell out the last time you interviewed me, i got a job out of it, so what is largely the quid quo pro were to carry out the investigation into corruption, this will go well for me, im and that namely meant, of sure. I went to a town in america with course, the bidens. Suggesting the president would and this is really a direct only authorize this military aid the highest percentage of trump voters, and i thought i would to ukraine if it were to carry teach them a lot and they would line David Ignatius being drawn out the investigation into teach me a little, like from the inside in terms of someone who was there and a part something i could stitch on a corruption how would you doyly, probably, and keep in my of this. What bill taylor described, house. But instead, it kind of changed david, how would you the way i lived, because they characterize that . Would gather every night on porches and not look at their is that a crime . Were you consulted about the well, he certainly has the phones and go to church and have these communities, and i really elements of an exchange of withdrawal of troops. Something for Something Else of thought, like, they knew more i wasnt consulted. About how to live than i did, we did so and they attacked but i definitely knew more about value. Thats usually called bribery. Within a matter of hours and you how to vote than they did. Well leave it to the house to characterize that . Is that a crime . So, what did you take away it has the elements of an decide how they want to assess from them on the political side . Exchange of something for say those were unrelated but it you say, you talked about the voting of it. The specific charges. Would say to me there was a when they talked about donald trump and how he impacted their Something Else of value. Yesterdays testimony as we read thats called bribery. Lives, whatd they say . Well, i think as people, we it had the feeling for me of a relationship. Turkey appears to be tipping point. Feel speed. We dont we dont feel speed, committing war crimes. It just was of a different its up to the house with how do you disagree with that . We feel acceleration. And what they have felt, even character of what weve seen they want to assess the specific turkish supported syrian before, mika, and ive tried to though White Christians are Opposition Forces that were still the most powerful group in think what is it about the way charges. Yesterdays testimony had the the country, they feel like they feeling for me of a tipping have less power than they used under general turkish command to, and its an existential taylor wrote these 15 pages. As you can see from the pictures and did carry out a war crime crisis for them, and they just hes a mild mannered kind of and we have reached out to want to stand on top of the turkey to demand an explanation. Mountain and yell stop. Classic Foreign Service officer. And i could feel why they feel i think there are two things. First, he wrote it almost as a christians are more point. Discriminated against than black that was the u. S. Ambassador people, because thats the experience theyre living. Detective story. As you can see hes a mild so, did you get any sense of he arrives in kiev not to syria. Facing questions yesterday on understanding that theres this the impact of turkeys offensive why so many feel such resentment mannered classic Foreign Service second as he calls it irregular in northeast syria. Officer. He wrote it almost as a toward People Like Us and where channel thats really running we live and h