What Went Down On Day 1 Of The Impeachment Hearings

Taylor referred to the Ukraine story we’ve been hearing “for the past two weeks.” He forgot to update his statement. It’s now been almost two months.

Yeah, Perry, it was previously reported that Taylor provided the committee with detailed notes about what he had learned and when. He seems like a very meticulous note-taker — or maybe he had the foresight to record everything about this episode when he started smelling something fishy.

Trump seems to have been saying two different things about the aid, according to Taylor’s testimony. He told Sondland he wasn’t “asking for a quid pro quo” but then went on to say that Zelensky had to go to a microphone and say he was opening an investigation of Biden and 2016 election interference. Understandable why Democrats are moving away from emphasis on “quid pro quo,” since it’s easier to get stuck in arguments about the definition and whether Trump actually used the phrase, rather than what he seemed to be communicating in other ways.