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Was one of the largest allegations . I believe it was the Largest National delegation. Included in that delegation was Secretary Perry. Secretary perry, ambassador sondland, myself, ron johnson was there, and at the u. S. Embassy at the time joe pennington. We have talked a little bit this morning, but the president zelenskys inauguration came together quickly . Did. We had three days notice in which to put the delegation together. There has been discussion whether the Vice President was going to lead that effort and as it turned out, he was not able to lead it. Do you have any information whe...

Zelenskys inauguration in may, i believe you testified it was one of the largest delegations . I believe it was. I cant be 100 sure. I believe it was the Largest National delegation. Okay. And included in the delegation was Secretary Perry . Secretary perry, ambassador sondland, myself, senator ron johnson was there and also the charge daffaires at the u. S. Embassy at the time, joe pennington. We talked a little bit this morning, but president zelenskys inauguration came together rather quickly . It did. I believe we had about three days notice in which to put the delegation together. Theres ...

About it. >> ambassador volker, is that also your recollection? >> yes, it is. >> it was not until the politico article -- >> that is correct, i received a text message from one of my counterparts on august 29th forwarding that article, that's a first they raised it with me. >> can you share a little bit about your communications during that time period about the aide? >> i did not have any communications with the ukrainians about the hold on eight until after they raised it with me for the same reason that tim just gave, the hope that we could get it taken care of ourselves before it became s...

Both thought it was important that the president released the aid before the ukrainians found out about it. >> ambassador volker, is that also your recollection? >> yes, it is. >> that it wasn't until the politico article that -- >> that's correct. i received a text message from one of my ukrainian counterparts on the 29th forwarding that article. that's the first time they ra e raised it with of me. >> can you share with us your communications in that time period about withholding the aid? >> yes. i didn't have any communication with the ukrainians about the hold on aid until after they raise...