and i attempted to try to talk to mr. morrison. that didn t happen before i received instructions from john eisenberg to not talk to anybody else any further. so, the lawyer you not only didn t go to your boss, what ended up unfolding was, you had conversations with the attorney. i did my core function, which is coordination. i spoke to the appropriate people. and mr. eisenberg told me not to talk to anybody there.
white house on july 25th or the 26th and if so, with whom? yes, i did. my core function is to coordinate u.s. government policy. i spoke to two individuals with regards to providing some sort of read-out of the call. two individuals that were not in the white house. not in the white house. cleared u.s. government officials with appropriate need to know. what agencies were these officials with? department of state, department of state, deputy assistant secretary george kent who is responsible for the portfolio eastern europe including ukraine. and an individual from the office of individual in the intelligence community. as you know, the intelligence community has 17 different agencies. what agency was this individual from?
at the nsc i m the principal advisor fought national security advisor for ukraine. to develop, oh order nate and implement plans and policies to manage economic and national security issues the countries in my portfolio. my core function is to coordinate function with agencies. the committee has heard from many of my colleagues as the importance of ukraine as a bull work against russian aggression. promoting ukrainian prosperity and a free and democratic ukraine as a counter to russian aggression has been a consistent, bipartisan foreign policy objective and strategy across various administrations both democratic and republican. and that president zelensky s election in april of 2019 created an unprecedented opportunity to realize our
after that, once i made that expressed my concerns, it was an extremely week. we had a pcc just finish, we had the call, and then a deputy s meeting, which consumed all of my time. i was working extremely long days. i attempted to try to communicate to i managed to speak to two folks in the interagency. i attempted to try to talk to mr. morrison. that didn t happen before i received struninstructions from eisenberg to not talk to anybody else any further. so the lawyer you not only didn t go to your boss, you went straight to the lawyer and the lawyer told you not to go to your boss? no, he didn t tell me until what ended up unfolding is i had the conversation with the attorney, i did my coordination my core function, which is coordination. i spoke to the appropriate people within the interagency, and then circling back around, mr. eisenberg came back to me and told me not to talk to
call with anyone outside the white house on july 25th or the 26th, and if so, if whom? yes, i did my core function is to coordinate u.s. government policy, inter-agency policy and i spoke with two individuals with regards to providing some sort of readout of the call. two individuals that were not in the white house? not in the white house. cleared u.s. government officials with appropriate need to know. and what agencies were these officials with? department of state, department of state deputy assistant secretary george kent, who was responsible for the portfolio, eastern europe, including ukraine. and an individual from the office of individual in the intelligence community. as you know, the intelligence community has 17 different agencies. what agency was this individual