I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign.

So wrote Bill Taylor, the US ambassador to Ukraine in a text message to Gordon Sondland,

the US ambassador to the European Union on September 9, 2019.

It was one of a series of devastating text messages released by three House committees

late Thursday night, pouring more fuel onto the impeachment fire, now consuming the House

of Representatives.

Were these text messages the proverbial smoking gun, or does President Trump and his loyal

Republican allies in the Congress still have a defense?

We'll discuss on this special bonus episode of Skull Duggery.

Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the crop, well,

I'm not a crop.

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage.

My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence

tell me it is not.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

There will be no lies.

We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else.

I'm Michael Isigov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.

And I'm Dan Clyde, an Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.

So quite the bombshell released by the House Committee's Thursday night following the testimony

of the special envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, who spent eight and a half hours behind closed

doors at a deposition on Thursday.

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