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The president's direction. >> let me show you slide 22 if i may that you understood the ukrainians recognized how important rudy giuliani was and satisfying himrt in order to st on good terms with president trump? >> yes,rm they quickly realizedt from their own internal conversations because mr. rudy giuliani had back channels to getting to the ukrainian officials and ambassador volker told ukrainians as well that there was this asquote, rudy giuliani factor that president zelensky, there was this rudy giuliani factor that they needed to deal with the president. >> and fact, this is a senior a...

One specifically for president trump. mr. ambassador, here's the text you sent to the ukrainian official on august 13th, let's put that up on the screen. you said hi, andre. good talking. following is the text with an insert at the end for the two key items. mr. ambassador, those two key items were specific references to investigations of burisma and the 2016 election, isn't that right, sir? >> that is correct. >> did mr. giuliani dictate those key items to you, sir? >> i had just had a conversation with mr. yermak to describe the conversation that we'd just had with mr. giuliani. mr. giuliani...

It is to invest or come here is the text you sent to the ukrainian official on august august 13th. let's put that up on the screen. you said, "hi, good talking. following is a text with an insert at the end for the two key items." mr. investor, those two key items for specific references to burisma and the 2016 elections, is that? >> that is correct. >> did mr. giuliani dictate those items to you? >> we had just had a conversation to describe the conversation we had just had with mr. guiliani. mr. guiliani said he would have to conclude these things for them to be convincing for him. i shared ...

Essentially president trump. mr. ambassador, here's the text you sent to the ukrainian official august 13th. you said hey andrey good talking, following are the two items. those two items were specific reference to burisma and the 2016 election. >> that is correct. >> did he take those two items to you, sir? >> as you see i just had a conversation to describe to him the conversation we'd just had with mr. giuliani. mr. giuliani said that it would need to include these things for it to be convincing to him. i put them in so we understood what he was talking about and i shared it with andrey to ...

Sondland says morrison, ready to get dates as soon as umack concerns. you reply excellent. how did you sway him? ambassador sondland says not sure i did. i think potus really wants deliverable. the deliverable here was a public announcement that ukraine was going to conduct investigations into burisma and allege 2016 election interference by ukraine, is that correct, sir? >> thank you. i understood the deliverable to be the statement that we had been talking about. >> on august 13th, you and ambassador sondland discussed a draft statement from ukraine with mr. giuliani. sir, why did you discus...