Committee will come back to order. Well now begin a period of fiveminute questions from the members. I recognize myself for five minutes. I want to ask you both about some of the questions you were asked by my colleagues in the minority. First, if i could ask you miss williams and colonel vindman, you were asked a series of questions by the Ranking Member at the outset. Were you aware of the fact that and then there was a recitation of information about burisma, the bidens. Is it fair the say you have no firsthand knowledge of any of the matters that were asked in those questions . Thats correct. That is correct. Miss williams, you were also asked a series of questions about the Vice President s schedule and whether he could have made the inauguration, was he traveling or the trip to canada. Lets be clear about something. You were instructed the president told the Vice President not to go before he knew the date of the inauguration. Is that correct . Yes. Thats correct. So at the time
Colonel. Again just for the record when did you 1st learn this Security Assistance was being with home on or about july 3rd. And what exactly had you learned from the state department i believe that prompted you to draft the notice on july 3rd i so on or about july 3rd i became aware of inquiries into. Security assistance funding in general there are 2 typical parts state department and d. O. D. And i believe it was around that day that o. M. B. Put a hold on congressional notification and you had any earlier indications that this might be the case prior to that there were there were some general inquiries on how the funds were being spent things of that nature Nothing Specific but no no hold d certainly well where anyone in the National Security community who supported withholding the aid know no one from the nationals security none no one from the state department correct no one from the department of defense correct and anyone into your understanding raise the look galatea withholdi
Requirements that our aid to ukraine is conditioned on anticorruption, Lieutenant Colonel vindman, you testified that you understood that congress had passed under the Ukrainian Security Assistance Initiative a legal obligation to certify that corruption is being addressed. That is correct. You also testify it is required by the National Defense authorization act. That is correct. So, for the public listening, were not just talking about President Trump focusing on anticorruption in ukraine, but it is to critical, so important that hardearned taxpayer dollars, when given to foreign nations that by law overwhelmingly bipartisan support requires anticorruption in ukraine in order to get u. S. Taxpayer funded aid. Lieutenant colonel vindman, you spoke extensetively about the need of aid to ukraine, specifically javelins. This was in your deposition. Correct. You testified the javelin in particular, because of its effectiveness in terms of influencing the russian decision calculus for aggr
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