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Americas Newsroom With Bill Hemmer and Sandra Smith-20191209-16:09:00

commitment to quote root out corruption, president trump did not mention corruption at all on this call just like he did not mention corruption on the july 25th call. shortly after this call, president trump asked vice president mike pence to attend president zelensky's inauguration. but on may 13th president trump did an about face and direct president pence not to attend. the inauguration wasn't scheduled and the reason for the abrupt change of plans wasn't about scheduling issues. what happened between april 21 and may 13th when vice president pence was invited and removed from the delegation. a few things. first on april 25th, vice president biden formally announced his bid for the

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CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera-20191125-01:06:00

the president no longer wished me to serve as ambassador to ukraine. and that the president had been pushing for my removal sints the prior summer. >> april 21, president zelensky won the election. on april 23, the vice president called to congratulate zelensky. during the call when i participated in, the vice president accept ed an invitation to attend zelensky's upcoming inauguration. providing the scheduling worked out. on may 13 an assistant to the vice president chief of staff called and informed me that president trump decided that the vice president wouldn't attend the inauguration. >> do you know the president decided? >> she didn't have that information. >> at one point during a meeting of the delegation, someone wondered out loud why giuliani was so active in the media.

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Special Report With Bret Baier-20191120-23:21:00

>> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you to our witnesses. i am delighted to follow is to radcliffe because he perfectly summarize the defense by republican colleagues are mounting. the defense goes like this. the president is acting on some deep, historical concern apparently invisible concern about corruption and that because he's so concerned about corruption in ukraine, he's holding up aid in being prudent and judicious. the first part of that is pretty easy to dispose of because president trump wasn't worried about corruption in ukraine. in fact in the two conversations he had with the president of ukraine, april 21 and july 25, not once does the president of the united states use the word or mention corruption to the president. the second part is a little more interesting. holding up aid, it's not just

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Impeachment Hearings-20191119-14:12:00

in july 2018, he was detailed to the white house in part to coordinate policy on ukraine. jennifer williams is a career foreign service officer who is currently detailed to the office of the vice president and responsible for europe and eurasia represented issues. following his congratulatory phone call with president zelensky on april 21, president trump asked vice president pence to represent him at vels's zele upcoming inauguration. ms. williams was working on logistics for the trip. pence would be a coveted attendee second in significance only to the president and would have sent an important signal of support to the new ukranian president. in early may however, rudy giuliani had been planning to go to ukraine to pursue the president's interests in having the bidens investigated. but had to call off the trip after it became public. among others, giuliani blamed people around zelensky no having to cancel and claimed that they

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Impeachment Hearings-20191119-14:33:00

my recollection of some of the events that i expect the committee may ask me about. on april 21, volodymyr zelensky won the ukranian presidential election. on april 23, the vice president called to congratulate president-elect zelensky. during the call, which i participated in, the instead accepted an invitation to attend his upcoming inauguration proitd t provided the scheduling worked out. the vice president only had a narrow win deof availability and the ukranian parliament would not meet to set a date for the inauguration until after may 14. as a result, we did not expect to know whether the vice president would be able -- could attend until may 14th at the earliest and we made only preliminary trip preparations in early may. on may 13, an assistant to the vice president's chief of staff called and informed me that president trump had decided that the vice president would not attend the inauguration in ukraine. she did not provide any further

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Impeachment Hearings-20191119-14:39:00

realize our strategic objectives. in the spring of 2019, i became aware of two disruptive actors primarily ukraine's then prosecutor lutsenko and former mayor rudy giuliani's promoting false narratives that undermined the united states' ukraine policy. the nsc and its partners including the state department grew concerned about the impact that such information was having on our country's ability to achieve our objectives. on april 21, volodymyr zelensky was elected president in a landslide victory on an anti corruption platform. president trump called president zelensky on april 21 to congratulate him on his victory. i was a staff officer who produced the call materials and was one of the staff officers who listened to the call. the call was positive and president trump expressed his desire to work with president zelensky and extended an

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Impeachment Hearings-20191119-17:43:00

witnesses identify a legal part of the case, we just let them off the hook? is that how it works? >> i don't think so. >> i don't think your brother would think so, either. miss williams. after the april 21 call to you, you put a note of that in the book, right? >> and he spoke of other things that time as well, right? >> that was the biggest issue, but i believe he talked about corruption. >> and he sometimes speaks to that, correct? >> he does on occasion.

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Americas Newsroom With Bill Hemmer and Sandra Smith-20191119-14:33:00

committee may ask me about. on april 21 zelensky won the ukrainian presidential election. on april 23 the vice president called to congratulate president elect zelensky. during the call, which i participated in, the vice president accepted an invitation to attend president elect zelensky's upcoming inauguration providing the scheduling worked out. the vice president had only a narrow window of availability at the end of may and the ukrainian parliament would not meet to set a date for the inauguration until after may 14th. as a result, we did not expect to know whether the vice president would be -- could attend until may 14th at the earliest and we made only preliminary trip preparations in early may. on may 13th an assistant to the vice president's chief of staff called and informed me that president trump had decided that the vice president would not attend the inauguration in ukraine. she did not provide any further

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Americas Newsroom With Bill Hemmer and Sandra Smith-20191119-14:12:00

in july 2018 he was detailed to the white house in part to coordinate policy on ukraine. jennifer williams is a career foreign service officer who is currently detailed to the office of the vice president and responsible for europe and aoush asia related issues. following his initial phone call with ukrainian president zelensky april 21 he asked vice president pence to represent him at the zelensky's upcoming inauguration, ms. williams was working on logistics for the trip. pence would be a coveted attendee second only to the president and would have sent an important signal of support to the new ukrainian president. in early may, however, rudy giuliani had been planning to go to ukraine to pursue the president's interests in having the bidens investigated but had to call off the trip after it became public. among others, giuliani blamed people around zelensky for having to cancel and claimed

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Americas Newsroom With Bill Hemmer and Sandra Smith-20191119-14:39:00

strategic objective. in the spring of 2019 i became aware of who disruptive actors, ukraine's then prosecutor lutsenko and former mayor giuliani. promoting false narratives that undermined the united states/ukraine policy. the nsc and interagency partners grew concerned about the impact it was having to achieve national security objectives. on april 2019 zelensky was elected president of ukraine on a unity, reform and anti-corruption platform. president trump called president zell on april 21 to congratulate him on his victory. i was a staff officer who produced the call materials and was one of the staff officers who listened to the call. the call was positive and president trump expressed a desire to work the president zelensky and extended an

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