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Retrospect, if you did not about fighting corruption and realize the purpose for mr. giuliani and president trump to mr. yermac provided me a draft want the burisma investigation was to -- for political benefits statement and i wanted to be in digging up dirt or getting assured that this statement some information on vice would actually correct the president biden, thats what you perception that mr. giuliani had learned subsequently, right? >> its correct that i learned of ukraine and what they ...

Zelensky needed to do in order to get the white house meeting. morrison, ready to get dates as do you recall that? >> i recall seeing that in soon as your man confirms. you reply, excellent, how did ambassador taylors testimony. you sway him? i believe there may have even and ambassador sondland says, been a text message to that not sure i did. i think potus really wants effect. and again, it comes down to what are we talking about in terms of deliverable. deliverable here was a public these inv...

When he sent over a draft that still failed to include the words bahraisma and 2016 giuliani said it would lack credibility and ambassador volker added both to the draft statement. both volker and morrison were by late july aware that the assistance was cut off at the direction of the president. as the ukrainians became aware of the suspension of assistance and the scheduling of a white house meeting of trump and zelensky dragged on, the pressure increased and any pretense of a linkage dropped a...

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, various drafts of which have been discussed in various proceedings. >> but this to your knowledge was part of that parallel process you were talking about? >> yes. >> if we can now go to the next exhibit which is another text exchange just a few minutes later between ambass...

To washington. good luck. on august 9th, sondland messages volker. i think potus really wants the deliverable. going on to suggest volker should ask for the ukrainian presidents aid in crafting a, quote, draft statement so we can see exactly what they propose to cover. volker will also appear on tuesday. >> kurt volker, lets remember, is a former career foreign service officer. kurt volker knew what normal foreign policy looks like. >> reporter: the final witness fiona hill is expected to see pr...

Zelensky, assuming president z convinces trump he will investigate, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail donwn a date for the visit to washington. good luck. on august 9th, sondland messages volker. i think potus really wants the deliverable. going on to suggest volker should ask for the ukrainian presidents aid in crafting a, quote, draft statement so we can see exactly what they propose to cover. volker will also appear on tuesday. >> kurt volker, lets remember, is a former...

Peace. so now the tiny extremely thin read the defenders will argue is, okay, yeah, it was a quid pro quo and thats fine because it was about corruption. the thing the trump administration was trying to get was a commitment from ukraine to look into corruption. generally that would be fine if it was generally corruption and its the last minor plausible argument they could conceivably make but that is totally belied by the documentary evidence we now have before us. we know this from the text mes...

That were specifically being demanded of them by rudy giuliani and president trump and they were investigations that were designed to help president trumps domestic political considerations. here for example -- its all -- weve got it now. heres a three-way text conversation between gordon sondland and kurt volker, the ukraine envoy, and another ukrainian official. the ukrainian government at this point has sent over a draft statement theyre proposing that their president could make announcing va...

Weeks." and when he says the anti-corruption statement we know from the context here, we know in part from the huge raft of text messages that were just released by the committees today that when ambassador sondland, even in his revised testimony calls it a public anti-corruption statement, we know he was well aware that what he was demanding of the ukrainian government was that they announce investigations that were specifically being demanded of them by rudy giuliani and president trump and th...

Investigate and get to the bottom of what happened in 2016. well nail down a date for the visit to washington. good luck. on august 9, a text from ambassador sondland to volker. i think potus want the deliverable. going onto suggest volker should ask ukraine for a draft statement. so that we can see exactly what they propose to cover. >> it basically substantiated every aspect of the whistleblowers complaint. that the president of the united states cohearsed a foreign power to help himself polit...