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Key Takeaways From Ambassador's Testimony on Ukraine

Associated Press

   WASHINGTON - Maybe it was a quid pro quo after all.

   A top U.S. diplomat told House impeachment investigators that President
   Donald Trump was withholding military aid to Ukraine unless the
   country's president went public with a promise to investigate
   Democrats.

   William Taylor's 15-page opening statement -- delivered Tuesday as part
   of a closed-door deposition -- is now central to the impeachment
   inquiry. It contradicts Trump's repeated denials, and details what
   Taylor says was a pressure campaign against Ukrainian President
   Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Democrats and a company linked to
   the family of Trump's potential 2020 Democratic rival Joe Biden.

   Democrats said that they were shocked and disturbed by what they heard.

   A look at the key takeaways from Taylor's statement:
   

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