About fighting corruption, we should also say specifically, burisma in 2016. Mr. Yermak provided me a statement. I wanted to be assured that this statement would actually correct the perception that mr. Giuliani had of ukraine and what they stand for now so that that would also be conveyed to President Trump and solve this problem that i had observed with our may 23rd meeting with the president. The problem being that he is getting a bad set of information, a Statement Like this could potentially correct that. Was mr. Guiliani satisfied with the statement . No, he was not. He believed it needed to say burisma and 2016 specifically or else it would not be credible, would not mean anything. So in fact, mr. Guiliani wanted a statement that Referenced Burisma and the 2016 elections explicitly. One that would benefit, essentially, President Trump. It is to invest or come here is the text you sent to the ukrainian official on August August 13th. Lets put that up on the screen. You said, hi,
it is to invest or come here is the text you sent to the ukrainian official on august august 13th. let s put that up on the screen. you said, hi, good talking. following is a text with an insert at the end for the two key items. mr. investor, those two key items for specific references to burisma and the 2016 elections, is that? that is correct. did mr. giuliani dictate those items to you? we had just had a conversation to describe the conversation we had just had with mr. guiliani. mr. guiliani said he would have to conclude these things for them to be convincing for him. i shared it with andriy yermak to say, this is what we were talking about. i put it back in just to be