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Assistance would not be lifted prior to the warsaw meeting where it would hang on whether president zelensky was able to, quote, favorably impress president trump. i took shows notes with president zelensky and chief of staff. bolton told zelensky's chief of staff the meeting between the presidents in warsaw would be crucial to cementing their relationship. however, president trump ultimately pulled out of warsaw trip so the hold remained in place with no clear means to get it lifted. between the meetings on august 27th, i heard ambassador bolton expressto to ambassador taylor d national secur...

A meeting between president trump and president zelensky we would have to work hard to find a way to explain ukraine's importance to president trump in terms that he found compelling. over the ensuing weeks we tried to identify ways to frame the importance of ukraine in ways that would appeal to the president. to determine how to lift the hold d on security assistance a to move forward on the scheduling of a white house visit by president zelensky. ukrainian independence day, august 24th, presented another good opportunity to show support for crane. secretary pompeo had considered attending, a...

Would not be lifted prior to the warsaw meeting where it would hang on whether president zelensky was able to, quote, favorably impress president trump. this was ambassador bolton talking after his meeting with president zelensky in between meetings while he's in ukraine. it's worth noting that warsaw trip ended up not happening for president trump because of the hurricane, he stayed in the united states. but ambassador john bolton's impression according to david holmes was that meeting in warsaw that was scheduled was about whether president zelensky could favorably impress president trump an...

Things, look, everybody is obviously focused on the lunch between ambassador sondland that david holmes attended where the president called in and david holmes makes very clear he heard in realtime clarity what the president was saying. when you go deeper into the very detailed statement from david holmes, you see more. specifically as it relates to u.s. security assistance to ukraine. why this is important, wolf, i talked to republicans going into this deposition who said, look, the call may have happened. the call seems like it did happen but the president didn't talk specifically about secu...

Mr. juligiuliani being involved this in that article, yes, sir. >> i think one of the mothers of all conspiracy theories is somehow the president of the united states would want a country that he doesn't even like, he doesn't want to give foreign aid to, to have the ukrainians start an investigation into bidens. with that, i yield to mr. jordan. >> thank the gentleman for yielding. ambassador taylor thank you for being here. aid's held up on july 18th, is that right? >> that's when i first heard about it. >> then it's released on september 11th. we know that from your deposition in those 55 da...