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>> but he did manage to find because the threat, the time to mention his potential demand, the blackmail, the extortion that house political rival in 2020. democrats are alleging, if you answered in response to the he didnt do that, he question that you had been working on the issue of couldnt possibly risk corruption literally for decades. i think on behalf of the military aid. he would have to do anything american people and indeed on he had to secure it. the problem with that, the whole ihole...

>> was ubiquitous on 2019 on fox news and the internet >> ambassador taylor.weve estan and twitter spear. >> ambassador taylor and mr. kent in all your time at the state department have you ever before seen an july 25th, both participant or instance where an ambassador was forced out by the less in the call have expressly stated there was no pressure, no president following a smear campaign of misinformation demand, no conditions, no orchestrated by the presidents allies. blackmail, no corruptio...

Stolen assets, end quote. is that correct? >> thats correct. it was launched in may 2014 by the attorney general of the u.s. and u.k. in conjunction with the world bank. >> and, in fact, by 2016, you were so concerned about corruption questions related to burisma, that when there was an effort by burisma to sponsor an essay contest with usaid you asked usaid to stop it? >> thats correct. >> and you testified that it was because, quote: burisma had a poor reputation in the business. and that you ...

Ukrainians overcome the legacy of corruption. yovanovitch get recalled which they actually have made a number of important from ukraine? steps since 2014. >> i believe a message was >> so, in fact, before all of this happened, you and sent on or about april 24th. your superiors at the state >> okay. certainly well before the department asked the ambassador to extend her july 25th call thats in question here, correct? time in the ukraine. >> without a doubt. correct, sir? >> and she had no remain...

Corruption. would you agree with that? >> >> i would say that there is corruption in every country. including ours. >> okay. thank you. and some were clearly more concerned about than others. in these corrupt nations of which there are probably hundreds of corrupt individuals, hundreds of corrupt government officials, can you give me an example any time where the vice president of the united states shows up and demands that a specific prosecutor be fired and gives them a six hour time limit to d...

Assistance, it is appropriate for them to look at levels of corruption in countries. >> thats correct. and lastly, you also testified that -- and this is your quote: issues of corruption have been part of high level dialogue between u.s. leaders and ukrainian leaders regardless of who is the u.s. leader and who is the ukrainian leader and that is a normal issue of diplomatic discussion at the highest level, end quote. is that correct? >> thats correct. >> i will yield 30 seconds. >> you know wha...

Extortion and talk about bribery and cover up and obstruction for which there is zero evidence of any of that we heard characterization of the presidents phone call so outrage julsly inaccurate it had to be described as a parody. none of those things matter. it comes down to this. we appreciate your insight. we appreciate your opinion. but all you can do is give your opinion of this. this one phone call. let me ask you, gentlemen, both of you have said here today, you have testified, corruption ...

Withholding some of this aid thats actually required by law that it be withheld if they cant certify that corruption has been eliminated or is being addressed? >> certification in that case is done by the secretary of defense upon advice of his staff in consultation with the inner agency community. we were fully supportive of that cnt. conditionality the secretary of defense had been certified that issue had been met. >> we agree withhold funds if there are questions about corruption that have n...

Chief admission. >> and you testified that the issue of corruption in burisma was in the u.s. interest because, quote -- and this is from your deposition, we had made a commitment to the ukrainian government in 2014 to try to recover an estimated tens of billions of dollars stolen assets out of the country. is that correct? >> that is a stolen assets that were in the name of the owner burisma krzyzewski, he was the one we believed had stolen the money. >> sure. so the first case, this was the fi...