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The following day, august 11th, this is critical, i sent an email to counselor break bull and lisa kenna. lisa was frequently used as the pathway to secretary pompeo as sometimes he preferred to received his emails through her. she would print them out and put them in front of him. with the subject ukraine. i wrote, mike, referring to mike pompeo, kurt and i negotiated a statement from zelensky to be delivered for our review in a day or two. the contents will hopefully make the boss happy enough, the boss being the president, to authorize an invitation. zelensky plans to have a big presser, pr...

Referred to the log jam i referred to the log jam in a very inclusive way. everything was jammed up at that point. and secretary pompeo essentially gave me the green light to brief president zelensky about making those announcements. >> okay. we can turn to that. then that was your email dated what date? >> do you have the page there? >> your email to secretary pompeo. august 11th? 16. >> august 22nd. >> okay, you are asking secretary pompeo whether we should block time. is there any discussion of

That, right? >> the secretary was. that's why it's in my email. >> let's look at your emails. there are two emails you sent to the secretary, right? >> mm-hmm. >> here? >> august 22nd. >> august 11th. >> so, the august 11th email, we went through this before. i'm sorry to go through it aga again. you said to the secretary, "kurt and i negotiated a statement to be delivered for a review in a day or two. the contents will hopefully make the boss happy enough to authorize an invitation. z plants have a big presser on the openness subject next week." a couple things here. this is only relating to ...

Specific investigation or any discussion of biden or burisma or anything linking to aid in this email that you sent to pompeo? >> no. this was a proposed briefing that i was going to give president zelensky. and i was going to call president zelensky and ask him to say what is in this email and i was asking essentially president pompeo's permission to do that. which he said yes. >> at that point in time we're talking about investigations into the origins of the 2016 election. not talking about anything to do with joe biden. >> joe biden did not come up. >> okay. stepping back a page to your em...

To be candid. >> but not biden? >> not biden, no. >> turning to your email of august 11th? >> yeah, got it. >> i'm sorry, we just do without. august the 22nd. >> the 22nd? >> yeah, that's page 23 of your opener. >> yeah, i got it. >> this is where you are requesting a poll life aside for the president. this is when the president was going to go. before the hurricane. bump set off the schedule. "i would ask zelensky to look him in the eye and tell them that once the new justice folks are in place, zelensky should be able to move forward publicly and with confidence on those issues of importance...