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This is how the Taylor transcript starts:

THIS WHOLE HEARING IS OUT OF ORDER!
AMBASSADOR TAYLOR: "That was my clear understanding, security assistance money would not come until the President committed to pursue the investigation."
Three immediate takeaways from the Taylor transcript

P. 190: Amb Taylor says his "clear understanding" was there was a quid pro quo

P. 260: The originator of the idea was Giuliani

P. 280: Amb. Taylor says withholding military aid to Ukraine harms U.S. national security
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Sondland will say:

"Giuliani’s requests were a quid pro quo... Giuliani demanded that Ukraine make a public statement announcing investigations of the 2016 election/DNC server and Burisma. Mr. Giuliani was expressing the desires of the President of the United States."
Sondland: "We did not want to work with Mr. Giuliani... We all understood that if we refused to work with Mr. Giuliani, we would lose an important opportunity to cement relations between the United States and Ukraine. So we followed the President’s orders."
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"Should have been made available" to the committee, he said. "In the absence of these materials, my memory has not been perfect."
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Taylor: “That was my clear understanding security assistance money would not come until the President (Zelensky) committed to the investigations.”
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BREAKING: US House cmte. leaders release transcript of impeachment inquiry testimony from acting US Amb. to Ukraine Bill Taylor as part of impeachment inquiry.

Updates to come.
Bill Taylor, acting top diplomat in Ukraine:

"That was my clear understanding, security assistance money would not come until [Ukrainian President Zelenskiy] committed to pursue the investigation."

(Page 190 of testimony transcript)
TRANSCRIPT: Read the impeachment inquiry testimony of Bill Taylor, acting top diplomat in Ukraine. nbcnews.to/2JXaPkf
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TAYLOR: “That was my clear understanding,
security assistance money would not come until the [Ukrainian] President committed to pursue the investigation.”

...

SCHIFF: “Are you aware that quid pro quo literally means this for that?”

TAYLOR: “I am.”

docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG…
Taylor: “I think it was becoming clear to the Ukrainians that, in order to get this meeting that they wanted, they would have to commit to pursuing these investigations. And [Ukraine Finance Minister] Danyliuk, at least, understood and I'm sure that he briefed President Zelensky”
Taylor, in his rare first-person cable to Pompeo on August 29 expressing concerns about suspension of aid to Ukraine, says he also suggested to Pompeo that he might resign.

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Full Opening Statement of Ambassador William B. Taylor- October 22. 2019

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Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the opportunity to appear today to provide my perspective on the events that are the subject of the Committees' inquiry.
My sole purpose is to provide the Committees with my views about the strategic importance of Ukraine to the United States as well as additional information about the incidents in question.
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From Amb. Bill Taylor's opening statement:

In addition to normal policy-making, "there was an irregular, informal channel of U.S. policy-making with respect to Ukraine," that included Volker, Sondland, Perry and Giuliani. By August 'the channels diverged in their objectives."

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2/ In June, Volker and Sondlad told Taylor that Trump "'wanted to hear from Zelenskyy' before scheduling the meeting in the Oval Office."

June 27: Sondland told him "Zelenskyy needed to make clear" that he "was not standing in the way of 'investigations.'"
3/June 28: Sondland told Taylor he didn't want to include most of the normal participants in a phone call with Zelenskyy.

Volker, Sondland, Perry and Taylor joined the call. Before patching Zelenskyy in, Sondland made sure no one was transcribing or monitoring.
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Here's Bill Taylor's opening statement today via @CNN cnn.com/2019/10/22/pol…
@CNN TAYLOR: "I found a confusing and unusual arrangement for making U.S policy towards Ukraine... There was an irregular, informal channel of U.S. policy-making with respect to Ukraine..."
@CNN TAYLOR: "I sensed something odd when Ambassador Sondland told me on June 28 that he did not wish to include most of the regular interagency participants in a call... [He] said that he wanted to make sure no one was transcribing or monitoring as they added President Zelenskyy..."
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