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>> the july 19th e-mail where you say the subject is i talked to zelensky just now. >> yes. ive got it. >> was there some sort of assurance that president zelensky needed to provide about what he would say to president trump in order just to get the phone call? >> i think that part was verbal and then there were a lot of communications going around back and forth with the ukrainians. thats when someone, and i dont remember who, came up with the idea of a draft statement so there would be no misu...

Right? >> which email again? >> the july 19th email where you said the subject as i talked to zelensky just now. >> i got it. >> was there is some sort of assurance that president zelensky needed to provide about what he would say to president trump in order just to get the phone call? >> i think that part was for a bowl and were a lot of communications going around back and forth with the ukrainians and that is when someone, and i dont remember who, came up with the idea of a draft statement so...

President trump told you and others to "talk to rudy." do i have that right, sir? >> correct. >> mr. ambassador, did you listen to the president and talk to rudy, sir? >> did i talk to rudy? yes. >> what did you understand to be mr. giulianis relationship with president trump. >> and understood he was the presidents personal lawyer. >> what did you believe to -- what did you believe mr. giuliani was doing in ukraine for president trump? stick i dont know. >> ambassador sondland, in august of thi...

Very senior officials, is that right? >> which i email again? >> sorry, the july 19th email, where you say, the subject is, i talked to zelensky just now. >>ed yes, i got it. >> was there some sort of assurance that president zelensky needed to provide about what he would say to president trump in order just to getsa th phone call? >> i think that part was verbal. and then there were a lot of communicationser going around bk and forth with the ukrainians. and thats when someone, and i dont remem...

Were going to get to that draft statement which was in august. this is july 19th, before the july 25th call. do you remember whether there was abe need from any of the whe house officials or other national security officials for president zelensky to provide some assurance of what he would say to president trump before a phone call, not the meeting, but a phone call was scheduled? >> there was initially apparently a condition. butnt that condition was obviouy dropped, because the phone call took...

Meeting in the oval office to discuss the future of u.s./ukrainian relationships, president trump told you and others to talk to rudy. do i have that right, sir? >> correct. >> mr. ambassador, did you listen to the president and talk to rudy, sir? >> did i talk to rudy? >> yes, sir. >> yes. >> what did you understand to be mr. giulianis relationship with president trump? >> i understood he was the presidents personal lawyer. >> what did you believe mr. giuliani was doing in ukraine for president...

Yourself know what ambassador sondland meant by the deliverable? >> i did not at the time. i think i have an understanding now. >> and what is your understanding now? >> there seems to have been discussions about a statement and various drafts of which had been discussed in various proceedings. >> but this, to your knowledge, was part of the parallel process you were talking about? >> yes. >> if we could go to the next exhibit which is another text exchange a few minutes later between ambassador...

Sondland says morrison, ready to get dates as soon as umack concerns. you reply excellent. how did you sway him? ambassador sondland says not sure i did. i think potus really wants deliverable. the deliverable here was a public announcement that ukraine was going to conduct investigations into burisma and allege 2016 election interference by ukraine, is that correct, sir? >> thank you. i understood the deliverable to be the statement that we had been talking about. >> on august 13th, you and amb...

Still failed to include the specific words burisma and 2016, giuliani said the statement would lack credibility. ambassador volker then added both burisma and 2016 to the draft statement. though they were by late july aware that the security systems have been cut off at the direction of the president and acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney. as the ukrainians became aware of the suspension of security assistance and that negotiations over the scheduling of the white house meeting betw...

Yourself know what ambassador sondland meant by "the deliverable?" >> i did not at the time. i think i have an understanding out. >> and what is your understanding out? >> there seems to have been discussions about a statement which have been discussed in various proceedings. >> but this to your knowledge was part of a parallel process that youre talking about? >> yes. >> if we could go to the next exhibit which is another text exchange just a few minutes later between ambassador sondland and yo...