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Yes. Now, ambassador taylor also testified that and mr. Morrison both of them testified that you told them that President Trump said there was no quid pro quo which you also included in the text message that you referred. But then you went on and they had slight variations as to what you told them, but then you said that to ambassador taylor that president zelenskiy himself not the Prosecutor General needed to clear things up in public or there would be a stalemate. And mr. Morrison recounted so...

When he came to post, i know i called him or he called me. i think he spoke with secretary perry and ambassador volker separately. in the course of the first few weeks he was highly appreciative that a new ambassador coming to post like himself was getting the kind of support he was getting from all three of us, having a cabinet member, a special envoy and a fellow ambassador all helping to raise the profile of ukraine. he was highly appreciative and highly complimentary. >> you maintained an op...

When he came to post, i think -- i know i called him or he called me. i think he spoke with secretary perry and ambassador volker separately. and in the course of the first few weeks, he was highly appreciative that a new ambassador coming to post like himself was getting the kind of support he was getting from all three of us, having a cabinet member, a special envoy, and a fellow ambassador all helping to raise the profile of ukraine. he was highly appreciative and highly complimentary. >> and...

And others to pressure ukraine to announce investigations into political opponents. clear up contradictions between his closed door deposition on october 3 and testimony of other officials. he said at no time was i a ware of and urge ukraine to investigate former vice president joe biden. he said you asked what conversations did i i have about the quid pro quo. none. because i didnt know there was a quid pro quo. testimony from others and texts volker himself provided to congressional investigat...

Joined the call, ambassador volker separately told the u.s. participants he ambassador volker planned to be express wit president zelensky in a one-on-one meeting in toronto on july 2nd. in that meeting, ambassador volker planned to make clear what president zelensky should do to get the white house meeting. i did not understand what this meant. but ambassador volker said he would relay that president trump wanted to see rule of law, transparency but also specifically cooperation on investigatio...

Zelensky to the line. before president zelensky joined the call, ambassador volker separately told the u.s. participants in the call that he, ambassador volker, planned to be explicit with president zelensky in a one-on-one meeting planned for toronto july 2nd. he planned to be explicit with president zelensky about what he should do to get his white house meeting." at that point, june 28th, just 11 days since taylors been in the country, he says, "at that point it was not clear to me on that ca...

Ambassador sondland said he wanted to make sure that no one was transcribing or monitoring the call as they added president zelensky to the line. before president zelensky joined the call, ambassador volker separately told the u.s. participants in the call that he, ambassador volcker, planned to be explicit with president zelensky in a one-on-one meeting planned for toronto july 2nd. he planned to be explicit with president zelensky about what he should do to get his white house meeting. at that...