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Text message. im asking you about your that zelensky should be able to move forward publicly and with conversations with mr. morrison and ambassador taylor after you spoke with the president, either confidence on those issues of in that call or in a different importance to potus and the u.s. call. >> im confused, mr. chairman. hopefully that will help break which conversations with the log jam. mr. morrison and mr. taylor? the secretary replied yes. >> well, mr. morrison testified i followed up ...

Relayed your belief that they needed to announce these investigations prior to the aid being released? >> i said i didnt know exactly why but this could be a reason. >> obviously, you had been speaking with mr. yermak for quite a while about a public announcement about the investigations. >> we had been working toward that end. >> so you said that security aid is now involved in that. >> as said -- i said it could have been involved, yes. >> now, im going to show you another text exchange you ha...

Will he put words in the presidents mouth that suggested the president himself wanted to link the security aid, for instance, to a promise of these investigations. thats not clear. what he has said in the amended testimony he gave, the declaration he sent to the committee after he got caught out with other witnesses testimony was that he presumed that this security aid must be linked to these investigations because they had been suspended for so long. there seemed to be no other explanation. he ...

Security council and the state department knew the important details of our efforts. the suggestion that we were engaged in some irregular or rogue diplomacy is absolutely false. i have now identified certain state department emails and messages that provide contemporaneous support for my view. these emails show that the leadership of the state department, the national security council and the white house were all informed about the ukraine efforts from may 23rd, 2019 until the security aid was ...

Aggression. i tried diligently to ask why the aid was suspended, but i never received a clear answer. still havent to this day. in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid, i later came to believe that the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement from ukraine committing to the investigations of the 2016 and burisma, as mr. giuliani had demanded. i shared concerns of the potential quid pro quo regarding the security aid with senator ro...

To -- >> fair enough. this is your third try to do so, sir. didnt work so well the first time, did it? we had a little declaration coming after you. and now we are here a third time and weve got a dusey of a statement. so with all do respect, sir, we appreciate your candor. but lets be clear on what it took to get it out of you. >> we are waiting for the congressman aforementioned congressman to join us. weve been talking about that moment as really one of the most powerful ones that we saw. why...

Previously, mr. giulianis requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house visit for president zelensky. mr. giuliani demanded that ukraine make a public statement announcing the investigations of the 2016 election, dnc server and burisma. mr. giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the united states and we knew these investigations were important to the president. fifth, in july and august of 2019, we learned that the white house had also suspended security aid to ukrain...

>> not at all. representative van drew, his seat that he was to hold in the new jersey senate flipped republican. people like him should be very concerned because they will likely be one term representatives because of this obsession with impeachment. obsession with hatred of the president, instead of getting the work that people have sent them there to do. nothing of substance on health care thats been signed into law, nothing on the economy and nothing on immigration. >> thank you for your tim...

Expressing some concerns about impeachment, are you surprised? >> not at all. representative andrew, in the elections in new jersey, his seat that he used to hold in the new jersey senate flipped republican. people like mister van bruce should be concerned because they will likely be one term representatives because of this obsession with impeachment, obsession with hatred of this president instead of getting the work people sent them to do. nothing of substance on healthcare that has been signe...

That others in trumps orbit were trying to secure, tying security aid, excuse me, to a commitment to investigate the democrats. meanwhile, former white house national security official tim morrisons testimony could help confirm trumps efforts to orchestrate a quid pro quo with ukraine. in fact, he previously testified that eu ambassador gordon sondland had told a ukrainian official that military assistance would probably be unfroze physician the government announced investigations into democrats...