set off the impeachment inquiry. zpl these are people who gave the whistleblower the knowledge. now u the president has said publicly there was no quid pro quo and wolf, this testimony makes clear that s what the president was saying privately, too, but he was also privately saying he wanted the ukrainian president to be in a public box. he wanted him out there making public statements that he was going to pursue these investigations that would have helped trump politically and only then was the president willing to move forward with this financial assistance. they were squeezing him to do a public interview. a tv interview. they mentioned cnn several times. thank you for that. to capitol hill now where bill taylor has been testifying all day long. phil matingly is on the scene for us. phil, were there any inconsist enissies between taylor and preefs witnesses? sources say that s one of the things they ve picked up over
reporter: none of the preefs directors had finished their ten year terms let alone exceed them. extending mueller requires congress to pass a new law which clears the senate unanimously. the decision to extend bob mueller term is the only time it happened. it was remarkable testament to him that congress approved this. reporter: muellers two year extension ends in 2013. he hands a completely over hailed fbi to a new director james comey. a man who four years later play a major role in the initial faze of the russia investigation. a full fledge member of the u.s. intelligence community and not just premier law enforcement agency in the united states. he earned the respect of the american people. with the concept that america is at peace because the fbi is at war. reporter: after leaving the fbi. mueller hired as a partner at the law mirm will hail.
lead conductor was in the passenger section not in the cab. instead the engineer and a conductor in training were in the cab. the engineer still allowed to operate the train. under amtrak policy he couldn t operate the train unless he was qualified and familiar with this territory. so the answer would be yes, within the preefs two weeks he d been qualified to operate on the territory. reporter: but the ntsb says the crew did not hit the emergency break before the derailment. it was automatically saactivate. but still no answer why on its very first run at a new passenger route the train sped at 80 miles per hour, much faster than the posted 30 mile per hour speed limit for the kuvd section of the track. they also know this, lifesaving technology called positive train control was not activated on this brand new passenger rail line.
from intelligence. well apparently he s been preefs on the facts or at least i hope he s taken breefs peef b fact. that is a little speechless considering the fact that he s got access to briefings that the rest of us don t have. move on, move on from the fact that we had a foreign power infiltrate and hack some of our democratic institutions, move on from the fact that this could easily happen. are you a fan, first of all, of us implementing the sanctions on russia and do they go far enough? i don t think they go far enough. but i will say this, short of seizing whatever assets we have in the west and the ability to seize that belong to vladimir putin personally and to members of his inner circle that control the kremlin, short of thatting with nothing goes far enough. if you want to punish vladimir
from intelligence. well apparently he s been preefs on the facts or at least i hope he s taken breefs peef b fact. that is a little speechless considering the fact that he s got access to briefings that the rest of us don t have. move on, move on from the fact that we had a foreign power infiltrate and hack some of our democratic institutions, move on from the fact that this could easily happen. are you a fan, first of all, of us implementing the sanctions on russia and do they go far enough? i don t think they go far enough. but i will say this, short of seizing whatever assets we have in the west and the ability to seize that belong to vladimir putin personally and to members of his inner circle that control the kremlin, short of thatting with nothing goes far enough. if you want to punish vladimir