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When he was named as part of the u.s. delegation led by secretary rick perry to president zelenskys inauguration. lieutenant colonel alexander vindman also attended the inauguration and as holmes recalls during a meeting with president zelensky, took the opportunity to advise the ukraine leader to stay out of u.s. domestic politics. another concern that arose for dr. hill around this time was her discovery of a potential nfc back channel on ukraine. hill learned that an nfc staff member who didn...

Television in public appearances that he had been given some authority over matters related to ukraine. hill was not alone in her concerns. her boss, national security advisor john bolton was also paying attention as were other nfc and state department officials including holmes at the u.s. embassy in kiev. bolton viewed giuliani as a hand grenade that is going to blow everybody up and harmless to prevent marie yovanovitchs firing in late april or her recall. holmes was stunned by the intensity ...

Zelensky to look into the bidens. neither request had been included in the official talking points for the call prepared by the nfc staff but both were in donald trumps personal interest and the interests of his 2020 reelection campaign. and the ukrainian president knew about both in advance in part because of efforts by ambassador sondland and volker to make him aware of president trumps demands. the next day july 26, in kiev, holmes served as a note taker during a meeting between acting ambass...

After speaking to the president, trump did not give a expletive about ukraine. he cares about big stuff that benefits him like the biden investigation that giuliani was pushing. david holmes is here with us today. he is a foreign service officer currently serving as the political counselor at the u.s. embassy in kiev. also with us is dr. fiona hill whose job as the national security council senior director for european and russian affairs. she left the nfc in july. dr. hill and mr. holmes provid...

Hearing this bolton abruptly ended the meeting. undeterred sondland brought the ukraine delegation and nfc and vindman to another part of the white house joined by dr. hill. in the second meeting sondland was more explicit. ukraine needed to conduct investigations if they were to get a meeting at all. bolton directed dr. hill to report this to nfc legal advisor john eisenberg saying you go and tell eisenberg im not part of whatever drug deal sondland and mulvaney are cooking up on this and tell ...