had with mayor giuliani on july 19th, mayor giuliani raised and i rejected the conspiracy theory that jd biden would have been influenced as vice president by money paid to his son. as i previously testified, i ve known vice president biden for 24 years and he is an honorable man and i hold him in the highest regard. at no time was i aware of or knowingly took part in an effort to urge ukraine to investigate former vice president biden and from the extensive documentation vice president biden was not a topic of discussion. i was not on july 25th phone call between president trump and president zelensky and not made aware of any arisen until the transcript was released on september 19th, 2019. i understood there was a distinction between burisma and biden and i didn t know that president trump or others had raised vice president biden with ukrainians or conflated the
involved in this parallel process? as i recall, it was definitely ambassador sondland and i believe mr. giuliani. and after she informed you of this company burisma, what, if anything, did you do to determine what that was? after that particular handoff meeting, i proceeded to look it up on the internet. i googled it. did you find it had some association with hunter biden? yes. now ambassador volker you did not listen to this call but you testified you were surprised and troubled when you read the call record after it was released on september 25th and also said that after reading the call record it was clear to you that the biden, burisma and 2016 election investigations that president trump discussed on the call were designed to serve the president s political interests, not the national interest. what did you mean when you said
investigation of possible ukrainian corruption with investigation of the former vice president. in retrospect, for the ukrainians, it would clearly have been confusing. in hindsight i now understand that others saw the idea of investigating possible corruption involving the ukrainian company burisma as equivalent to investigating former vice president biden, i saw them as very different. the former being appropriated unremarkable and the latter being unacceptable. in retrospect, i should have seen that connection differently and had i done so i would have raised my own objections. fourth, much has been made of the term three amigos in reference to secretary perry and ambassador sondland and myself. i have never used that term and cringe when i hear it because that will refer to senator mccain and lieberman and fluts wore the surge in iraq. i was never aware of any designation putting the three of
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