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Yes, i believe so. Okay. And this is just investigation, generally making a public to of openness generally. Right . I think by august 11th, mr. Castor, i think we were talking about 2016 and burisma. The investigation generally was really early in the but do we know that Secretary Pompeo knows that . I think so. Why . Only because i think councilor breakable was briefed on all of these things. By who, by you . I think ambassador volker, by myself. Does not he testified to. I didnt know he testi...

Anybody else. Im going to read from the transcript here. Why didnt you go to your direct report, mr. Morrison, your response, because mr. Eisenberg had told me to take my concerns to him. And then i asked you, did mr. Eisenberg tell you not to report, to go around mr. Morrison . And you said, actually, he did say that, i shouldnt talk to any other people. Is that right . Yes, but theres a whole theres a period of time in there between when i spoke to him and when he circled back around. It wasnt...

Collecting it, they were not passing it to you, they were passing it to State Department . Department of defense . This is what they reported to me. I have not seen the documents that have been collected. I only know those documents that i have produced or that my staff at my staff has brought to my attention or that i have received. So no, i do not know what has happened with the documents that have been collected. Same general question to you, sir. I requested it wants given access to document...

Obligation to account fully for my role in these events. Did by obligation, you mean simply your legal obligation . Or did you mean something bigger . Well, both my legal obligation and my moral obligation. Your moral obligation . I actually want to present an alternative theory. Your family came here escaping the holocaust via uruguay. And your parents moved lucy and later you here where, frankly, youve been an american success story. Through dent of hard work and innovation, good idea, and kna...

An investigation on a political rival . Mr. Morrison . In that hypothetical, no, i dont think he should do that. Yeah. And ambassador volker, im sure you agree. Yes. And the same would be true if it were a governor withholding the budget requests of the state police unless the state police agreed to conduct an investigation on a political rival. You would agree . Correct. Yes, sir. In your view is it any different for a member of congress . Of course not, right . Would you agree that the preside...

That was the only person i could think of. Prior to working for the yurt council worked for Ranking Member nunes, is that right . I only found that out after the fact. I wondered why i was being asked about him, so i looked it up. You cautioned us on dangers that members of this committee pedaling any Conspiracy Theories that could benefit russia, i want to ask if you heard the nameless parness who was questioning Rudy Giuliani about the Conspiracy Theories. Are you aware he was indicted october...

Projects especially toward folks like russia? >> well, an oval office meeting is incredibly dire for any leader to make that principle and for the ukrainian president it is important to demonstrate that they bond between the united states and ukraine is strong and that theres continuity in our policies and we will continue to work together on the policy goals with aggression and the ukraine. >> thank you so much. >> i yield back. >> that concludes the member questioning. mr. nunes, do you have a...

Are all asking is whether american foreign policy in ukraine is potentially being run in their interests and not our own. >> it certainly appears as if its being used there is a subversion of american power of attorney policy to push these peoples personal interests. >> thank you so much. that concludes the member questioning. we will now go to closing statements. mr. nunes. do you have any closing remarks? >> i have stressed in these hearings that the whistleblower complaint was merely a pretex...

Projects, especially towards folks like russia? >> well, an oval office meeting is incredibly valuable for any foreign leader. let me just take that general principle. for a ukrainian president, it is indeed what you just said. it demonstrates that the bond between the united states and ukraine is strong. and that there is continuity in our policies and that we will continue to work together in our policy goals include encountering iran, russian aggression and intimidation of ukraine. >> thank y...

>> i yield back. >> that concludes the 45 minute rounds. we will now go to member questioning. i will recognize myself for 5 minutes. first, as a threshold, i want to say to the witnesses to be a bit cautious when members represent, "are you aware of this fact, are you aware of that fact? you know so-and-so testified to this were about?" if you have personal knowledge of it, thats fine. sometimes numbers get it wrong, so let me just clear the record on one of the things that was suggested to you...