Zelensky On E News Today

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 potentiall...

Correct? >> very terse readout, yes. >> in this readout, was there any reference to withholding aid? >> there was none. >> any reference to bribery? >> there was none. >> any reference to quid pro quo? >> there was none. >> any reference to extortion? there was none. >> i assume you got feedback from your ukrainian counterparts? did they mention any withholding aid or quid pro quo? >> no, they did not. >> did they mention any bribery? >> no, they did not. speak of the day the call you met with p...

President. and i had met with president poroshenko, i had met with others in the opposition as well, and i wanted to call mr. yermaks attention to the potential problems of this. im very familiar with other examples of countries in the region that have gone for prosecutions of the former government and these have created deep divisions in society. so i cited president zelenskys inauguration speech. im sorry, his national day speech from august 24th that was all about unifying the country. and i ...

Clear to the ukrainians, this is what the conversation was. >> mr. ambassador, if you believe the statement that mr. guiliani dictated in august was not a good idea, why were the ukrainian still considering giving an interview with the same themes in september? >> if i may, congressman, i conveyed this to the ukrainians in order to be clear so we knew what the conversation was about. it was following up on this prior conversation. the ukrainians then said they had reasons not to do that, they de...

You didnt say, wow, the president is bribing the president of ukraine. that didnt cross your mind, or that he was extorting the president of ukraine. >> it did not, sir. >> or doing anything improper. >> correct, sir. >> have you read in the media where it president zelensky agrees with you and has said consistently that he didnt hear any demand or any commissions, he didnt feel any pressure, he didnt experience anything improper or corrupt on the call. >> at the u.s. general assembly, he made c...

Vice president biden that i knew at the time. and the efforts that i was making were clearly not in the context of what had already been discussed by the president on july 25th. >> its fair to say you were not able to fix the giuliani problem? >> that is correct. >> thank you, ambassador volker and mr. morrison, for your years of service and your professional expertise and leadership on national security issues. i want to particularly thank mr. morrison for his great work on the house armed serv...

Would you agree with that? >> i agree with that. >> we keep hearing the whole thing about ukrainians, that has all been debunked. it was just the russians. that comes from an ic community that some of the people have come up with those conclusions are some of the very people that we are going to find out, if we havent already, were deeply involved with this whole russian collusion hoax. but i want to say you did a great job. youve added zelenskys intentions. what he intended to be as a president...

Zelensky having terrible people around him. who do you think he was calling terrible people around him? >> there were two people that came to mind. one of them was a former investigative journalist and leader parliamentarian. he come in many of these stories, is seen as bringing forth a black ledger relating to paul manaforts dealings in ukraine peer that was one person. another person i thought it could be referring to is zelenskys chief of presidential administration. he was known as a lawyer ...

That, is it not true that in march of this year the department of defense certified ukraine as having made sufficient progress to continue to receive military assistance? >> i dont know the details but i believe that is correct. >> is not true that on april april 21st, zelensky won and overwhelming mandate based largely on his advocacy for anticorruption? >> correct. >> as an entree that this was expanded on july 21st when his party won party control on the basis of anticorruption? >> correct. >...

Presidents request to not come here, as other have, like mr. mulvaney and mr. bolton. and you have come here, and youve been truthful. and i appreciate that. mr. morrison, whether you acknowledge it publicly or not, i believe that you knew that what the president asked the ukrainians to do was wrong. and as you just described, your duty is to follow the foreign policy priorities of the president, but also only follow something that is a lawful order. and i believe you didnt think that was a lawf...