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Phoebe with ambassador taylor, was he assesssatisfied that thie was now behindti him . I dont really know, because when i responded, get ahold of the secretary, and he said i agree. I never knew i whether he reach out to the secretaryhe or not. That was sort of the end at one point in the text you said lets get on the phone, you said youre an individual that doesnt like to walk through these issues on texts when you can talk about it on the 1 telephone, correct . I say that to everybody when som...

Mr. volker, i just have a few questions before i turn it back to mr. goldman. you testified in response to my colleagues on the minority something along the lines of, a lot of people did not make the connection between burisma and biden. i think a lot of people have real difficulty understanding that. tim morrison testified that i think it took him all of doing a google search to find out, oh, this is the significance of burisma, it involves the bidens. are you saying during all this time up unt...

>> to the white house meeting. >> and lisa kenna responds, gord gordon, ill pass to s. and s is secretary pompeo? >> correct. >> thank you, lisa. now, two days later, you have a text exchange with ambassador volker again. and this is at the end of it. but the earlier text which we dont have here, you may recall, includes the press statement, the revised press statement that includes burisma and the 2016 election. do you recall that? >> yes, if i could see it, that would be helpful. but yes. >> s...

Nodded? >> he heard what i said. >> and didnt respond in any way?re >>wa i dont recall any substantive response. >> but you never specifically referenced the bidens or burisma in that meeting, did you? >> i dont remember ever mentioning the bidens. i may have mentioned burisma. >> and that meeting was with a group, you werein not alone wit vice president pence? >> thats right. >> and you know that at that bilateral meeting with president zelensky, i believein you testified earlier that vice pres...

An email to ulrich brechbuhl and lisa kenna. are you able to see that on your -- >> yeah, i can see it on the screen. >> okay. what is the subject of the email? >> ukraine. >> and can you read what you wrote there? >> mike, and im referring to secretary pompeo, kurt and i negotiated a statement from zelensky to be delivered for our review in a day or two. the contents will hopefully make the boss happy enough to authorize an invitation. zelensky plans to have a big presser on the openness subjec...

To the extent youve confirmed it isnt anything different than happened on the 7/25 call, agreed, from the presidents -- >> with 20/20 hindsight now that weve had the transcript of the call, the bidens were clearly mentioned on the call but i wasnt making the connection with the bidens. >> right, but with regard to the president, it was just mentioning investigations. >> thats all he said on the phone was investigations, i think. >> but you told us time and again that you never realized the biden...

All the discussions with rudy giuliani, that you never put burisma together with the bidens? >> i didnt. and i wasnt paying attention to what mr. giuliani was saying on tv. we were talking to him directly. >> let me ask you this. ambassador volker testified yesterday to a similar epiphany, for lack of a better word. this is what he said. in hindsight, i now understand that others saw the idea of investigating possible corruption with the ukrainian company burisma as equivalent to investigating f...

>> biden investigation and burisma/2016 election investigation, is that right? >> yes. >> youn, say, hopefully that wi break the logjam. at this point you knew that the security assistance had been on hold for five weeks, is that right? >> i became aware on the 18th of july.>> >> and you understood there was a lot of activity within the state department and elsewhere to try to get that hold lifted, is that right? >> thats right. >> just about everybody in the interagency, meeting the national se...

>> i think i referenced -- i didnt say ukraine had to do the investigations. i think i said we heard from mr. giuliani that that was the case. >> so that helped inform your presumption, correct? >> correct. >> so that wasnt really a presumption, you heard it from mr. giuliani. >> not about the aid. i heard about the burisma 2016. >> and as we discussed, two plus two equals four, the aid was there as well? >> that was the problem, mr. goldman. no one told me directly that the aid was tied to anyt...

Statements aboutnt burisma and e 2016 election. >> but what was being held up? >> the aid was being held up, obviously. >> four days later you said in your opening statement that you sentur rudy giulianis contact information to john bolton, is that right? >> i did. >> did you know why he asked for that? >> no idea. >> did you know that he was going to ukraine the next day? >> i knew he was about to go to ukraine. i didnt know exactly when his tripdi was. but i thought it was kind ofip odd w requ...