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Base of the Republican Party and to me. So i believe that he was at with very few defections. That may change, but right now i least affected by those and believed those and believed they were think thats a correct negative . Assessment by the white house, believed that they were that theyve got the senate tied negative and was conveying them up in a way that will protect to the president. So was it problematic that he the president from actually being removed from office. Believed they were neg...

Does. But his aides and his campaign, the white house, they have been sending out very negative messages about Lieutenant Colonel vindman. They tried to use something morrison said behind closed doors when he said there were people that questioned vindmans judgment at nsc, specifically fiona hill that well hear from thursday. I his Opening Statement, i think he realized how much play that has got. He said he wasnt here to criticize his colleagues. Saw vindman prepared to address it as he was the...

Rejected the theory that vice president biden would have been influence by money paid to his son. i have known vice president bidon for 24 years. he is an honorable man. i ohohold him in the highest regard. at no point was i -- >> republicans kept insisting that hold up in the funding for ukraine was perfectly normal. >> my colleagues asked about well, doesnt aid get held up for all kinds of reasons? ambassador volker have you ever seen military aid held up because a president wanted his rival i...

Ambassador volker. >> in the hypothetical case, no, not appropriate. >> youre not sure about joe biden? >> i can only speak to what i understood at the time and why i acted the way i did at the time. >> finally, my colleagues asked about well, doesnt aid get held up for all kinds of reasons. ambassador volker, have you ever seen military aid held up because the president wanted his rival investigated? >> no, i have not seen that. >> have you ever seen that, mr. williams? mr. morrison, im sorry? ...

Investigate ambassador volker? would that be appropriate? >> in those hypothetical cases, no, not appropriate. >> but youre not sure about joe biden? >> sir, again, i can only speak to what i understood at the time and why i acted the way i did at the time. >> finally, my colleagues asked about, well, doesnt aid get held up for all kinds of reasons. ambassador volker, have you ever seen military aid held up because the president wanted his rival investigated? >> no, i was not seen that. >> have ...

Wanted to do and had agreed to a meeting. so i was working -- i was tracking that we needed to schedule a meeting. >> you were not endorsing the notion of president zelensky sending a message about investigations, is that your testimony? >> that is my testimony. >> ambassador volker, i want to jump ahead. after the aid was released, you went to the yes conference, right, in ukraine? and are you aware of that ambassador taylor, who testified based on quite detailed notes, indicated that earlier, ...

It than yours? zelensky and senior u.s. >> i have no reason to doubt their notes, if there were notes officials, right? starts with the call with president trump and president taken contemporaneously at the zelensky. next day you meet with president meeting. >> another witness testified before us, laura cooper, about a zelensky in ukraine and then we meeting that she had with you on have ambassador bolton meeting -- then we have vice july -- on august 20th. do you recall having that president pe...

Had conversations with both. so i get to ask you, you had a meeting with the president of the united states and you believe the policy issues he raised concerning ukraine were valid, correct? >> yes. >> did the president of the united states ever say to you that he was not going to allow aid to the united states to go to the ukraine unless there were investigations into burisma, the bidens, or the 2016 elections? >> no, he did not. >> did the ukrainians ever tell you that they understood they wo...

Hesitate to say did he ever raise it. but he did not raise it at the time of the 25 july phone call. >> okay. switching gears a little bit, you strike me as a process guy. and its nagging at me because you characterized the ambassador sondlands linking, in whatever way it happened, of aid to an investigation as the gordon problem, you said it caused you to roll your eyes. ambassador volker said everybody in the july 10th meeting thought it was inappropriate. john bolton characterizes this as the...

President z convinces trump he representative turner and bothers me. will investigate, quote, get to you were the special envoy to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail down date for yeah y ukraine, and in that role you said in your opening statement you are the administrations visit to washington. thats what you expected from the call, right? most public figure in calling >> yeah, i expected that out russias responsibility in president zelensky would be convincing in his, uh, the wa...