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Discussion for thursday. other than the colorful language, he was definitely moved by the color, he was unequivocal that you brought up the bidens in the post-call discussion. he said something to the effect of, "the president is only interested in big things," and mr. holmes said there's a lot of big things going on in the ukraine. like there are. there's a war, ukraine is under attack from the east by russia. he puts words in your mouth to the effect of, "no, the president only cares about investigations like rudy is pitching about the bidens." what's important about this, this is the day af...

You confirmed it, it isn't anything different than it happened on the 7/25 call. agreed? from the president's standpoint? >> with 20/20 hindsight now that we have the transcript of the call, the bidens were clearly mentioned on the call. but i wasn't making the connection with the bidens. >> with regard to the president, it was just mentioning investigations. >> that's all he said was investigations, i think. >> you told us time and again that you never realize the bidens were part of any of this. burisma, you talked about it continue on. you came to understand that until maybe as late as sept...

To the extent you've confirmed it isn't anything different than happened on the 7/25 call, agreed, from the president's -- >> with 20/20 hindsight now that we've had the transcript of the call, the bidens were clearly mentioned on the call but i wasn't making the connection with the bidens. >> right, but with regard to the president, it was just mentioning investigations. >> that's all he said on the phone was investigations, i think. >> but you told us time and again that you never realized the bidens were part of any of this, burisma and you talked about a continuum and you never came to und...

President's requests during the july 25th call were not consistent with u.s. policy. i emphatically agree with you, sir. yet these six messages show that ambassador volker spent much of august pressing ukraine to meet those requests. we can only be grateful i guess that the president essentially got caught. and congress passed a law to ensure the funding was released to ukraine before it was too late. i thank you both for your service. mr. chairman, i yield back. >> thank you, mr. chairman. both of you gentlemen, thank you very much for being here. i want to start if i can with you mr. morriso...

Pages 58 to 60, the question was, did you know if anybody else on the call went to eisen berg to get your concerns. etsd, i knew they raised concerns. the question is who? alex vindman on my staff questioned them, and he reports to you, correct? answer, he does. the direct report was mr. morrison and it didn't happen. sdplz the question was, okay, after the call on 7/25, did you have any questions with mr. morrison. per the exercise in the chain of commander, i meetdly went to e