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Statement which was in august. this is july 19th before the july 25 th call. do you remember whether there was a need from any of the white house officials or other national security officials for president zelensky to provide some assurance of what he would say to president trump before a phone call, not the meeting, but a phone call was scheduled? >> there was initially apparently a condition, but that cndition was obviously dropped because the phone call took place and there was no such statement made. the phone call took place as you said on the 25th of july. >> when you say this was no su...

Assure president trump that he would do these investigations in a phone call. >> in my e-mail i obviously had just spoken with him, he being zelensky, and he said that he was prepared to receive the call and he would make those assurances to president trump on that call, and then presumably that would then lead to the white house meeting. >> you had been discussing this phone call for several weeks now, is that right? >> yes, with volker, with perry, with giuliani through volker and perry. >> and then right after you sent this e-mail assuring the others that he will discuss the investigations ...

Confirmed the call being set up tomorrow by nsc, rp. then a little later mr. mulvaney replies to all saying i asked nsc to set it up for tomorrow. were these the only responses you received to this e-mail? >> i don't know. if i have them, i would show them. i don't know. >> no one wrote back to you and said, what are you talking about in terms of these investigations and turning over every stone? >> no. there was a chain and i don't know if it's part of this e-mail or a subsequent e-mail where i believe ambassador bolton pushed back and said he did not want a call to president zelensky made by...

Pompeo. can you read what you wrote on july 19th to this group, please? >> he is prepared to receive potus call, will assure him that he intends to run a fully transparent investigation, will turn over every stone. he would greatly appreciate a call prior to sunday so he can put out some media about a friendly and productive call, no details, prior to ukraine elections. >> when you say will assure him that he intends to run a fully transparent investigation and will, quote, turn over every stone, unquote, what do you mean there? >> i'm referring to the burisma and the 2016/dnc server investiga...

Staff round of 30 minutes. mr. volker, i just have a few questions before i turn it back to mr. goldman. you testified in response to my colleagues in the minority something along the lines of "a lot of people did not make the connection between burisma and biden." i think a lot of people have real difficulty understanding that. tim morrison testified that, i think, it took him all of doing a google search to find out, oh, this is the significance of burisma, it involves the bidens. are you saying during all this time up until the call you never made the connection between burisma and the bide...