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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 ...

Acceptable language. >> ultimately that statement was not issued, was it? in the white house meeting did not -- >> still has not occurred. >> you certainly understood at that time, they do not, that it was the president's direction and instruction that a white house meeting with president zelensky would not occur until president zelensky announced publicly the investigation that the president wanted come is that a writer? >> that's correct. >> you now know the president wanted an investigation into the bidens and an investigation into the 2016 election. >> i know that now, yes. >> i'm going to...

Everyone wasn't in the loop with that, right? >> well, the secretary was, because that's why i sent my email. >> but your emails -- let's look at your emails. there's two emails that you sent to the second, right? that are here? >> august 22nd. >> right. >> and august 11th. >> 1 august 1th. >> the august 11th email. we went through this before. i'm sorry to go through it again. you said to the secretary, kurt and i negotiated a statement from z to be delivered for our review in a day or two. the contents will hopefully make the boss happy enough to authorize an invitation. z plans to have a bi...

President trump and president zelenskiy in warsaw. and when i referred to the logjam, i referred to the logjam in a very inclusive way. everything was jammed up at that point and secretary pompeo essentially gave me the greenlight to brief president zelenskiy about making those announcements. >> okay. we can -- we can turn to that. and then that was your email dated what date? >> do you have the page there? >> well, your email to secretary pompeo. was that august 11th? >> 16th. >> august 22nd. >> okay. so you're asking secretary pompeo whether we should block

September. i can't find the records and to the conclusion that the aid, they won't provide them to me. like the white house visit, was but i believe i just asked him an open-ended question, jeopardized. in preparation for the september mr. chairman, what do you want from ukraine? 1 warsaw meeting, i asked i keep hearing all of these different ideas and theories and secretary pompeo whether a this and that. what do you want? and it was a very short, abrupt face-to-face conversation between trump and zelensky would help to break the log jam. conversation. he was not in a good mood. and this was ...