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Second meeting is august 27th. zelensky meets with you and ambassador bolton and others and again there's no linkage of security assistance dallass oll investigate of the bidens. the third meeting zelensky meets with you and senators johnson and murphy and once again there was no linkage of security assistance dollars. three meetings with the president of ukraine and no linkage. that's accurate? >> mr. jordan, it's certainly accurate on the first two, first two meetings, because to my knowledge the ukrainians were not aware of the hold on assistance until the 29th of august. >> from the politi...

Want to provide any assistance at all. that was extremely troubling to me as i had told secretary pompeo in may the policy of strong support for ukraine were to change, i would have to resign. based on my call with mr. morrison, i was preparing to do so. just days later, on august 27th, ambassador bolton arrived in kiev and met with president zelensky. during their meeting, stuart assistance was not discussed. as far as i knew, the ukrainians were not aware of the hold until august 29th. i on the other hand was all too aware of and still troubled by the hold. near the end of ambassador bolton'...

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

To provide any assistance at all. that was extremely troubling to me as i had told secretary pompeo in may, if the policy of strong support for ukraine were to change, i would have to resign. based on my call with mr. morrison, i was preparing to do so. just days later, on august 27th ambassador bolton arrived in kiev and met with president zelensky. during the meeting security assistance was not discussed. as far as i knew, the ukrainians were not aware of the hold until august 29th. i, on the other hand, was all too aware of and still troubled by the hold. near the end of ambassador bolton's...

Otherwise. the statement in question something we've seen repeatedly in other depositions. president zelensky would come and make a statement in exchange for something or apparently this testimony, u.s. security assistance in order, the statement would say, investigations into barisma and hunter biden for inference. and the pentagon official and the state department official making sure ukrainians were aware of the hold on august 27th, when the administration says that were aware based on a public news report. they were hearing from ukrainians on the ground they were aware and concerned and we...