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Aid. on july 26 president zelensky meets with ambassador sondland and volker, makes no reference to a quid pro quo and a hold on aid. it's not until they read it in politico on august 29 that president zelensky and his team received confirmation that there's a hold on aid. >> i just want to ask you about the front end of that when he's talking about ukrainians never felt pressure, they didn't know the ukraine aid was being held up, do you buy that argument that they didn't feel pressure, that we should take their word for that? >> let's make clear, in july about the time of the july 25 phone c...

July 20th, what was told to tell trump. july 28th, morrison tells taylor wha what happened on the zelensky call. august 21, brechbuhl talks to tailor, august 29, yermak and morrison tells taylor what danyluk told and morrison tells taylor what sondland told trump september 8th and sondland tells taymor what trump told sondland. nowhere, nowhere is there in holmes tells taylor what the president of the united states told sondland. >> may i answer the question? >> i'll give you a chance in a second. but 13 conversations? 13 conversations from there star witness? you're their closing witness and ...

Figure of this whole inquiry. the president of the united states stating it is plainly and clearly as he could. second, i do think it's important to understand there were only 14 days that the ukrainians knew that the aid was held up. they learned on august 29, and the 14 day time frame, the 29th of august, there are three key interactions with senior government officials on the president of ukraine. the most important in my judgment was the last one, the bipartisan meeting from the legislative branch. if ever there was a time or zelensky would've brought up the idea that aid was somehow linke...

A brand-new guy in ukraine. zelensky wins. his party takes over and president trump wants to see, with all these other things that are of concern, he wants to see if this new guy is, as i like to sale, the real deal? a real reformer. aid gets held up for a 55. july 18 and released on september 11. it seems more important of the 55 day pause is the 14 days. ukraine realized aid was held up on the 29th. we've had you testify to that and the witnesses yesterday. aid gets held up -- ukraine learns aid is held on august 29 and then released on september 11. in those 14 days, there are three importa...

August 29, ambassador bolton and president zelensky. september 1, vice president pence meets with president zelensky and septembes murphy and johnson meet with president zelensky. none of those meetings, none of those meetings did any linkage to security assistance dollars and an announcement or the start of any investigation ever come up. none of them. but he seems to be the one that's the most important is probably the one we have talked least about and that is the september 5 meeting. that is actually a meeting where there's -- it's much more congressional focused than white house focused. ...