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States, right? that is correct. so you never advised the president of ukraine? i helped him get you said the organization of president zelensky, following the visit the members had a debriefing. you were a member but you weren t in that meeting, were you? that s correct. we ll just have a note there that that meeting occurred without you. you do know that this impeachment inquiry is about the president of the united states, don t you? i do. you said you re responsible for coordinating u.s.-ukranian policy? correct. does the secretary of state pompeo report to you? he does not. ambassador volker? he does not. ambassador of ukraine, eu, nato, anyone in europe report to ....
did out crathe ukranian offi you spoke to understand that mr. giuliani was telling you to investigate vice president biden s son and debunk the 2016 conspiracy theories? i m sorry, can you say that again, ma am? do you think the ukranian officials you spoke to understood the underlying meeting of mr. giuliani s advances to be both investigating the bidens as well as debunking the 2016 conspiracy theories? yes, i think to be clear, i think you re referring to debunking that it was a russian interference. exactly. now, was this official u.s. foreign policy, to push into investigation into the bidens? it was not part of any process i investigated. ....
Sondland would be responsible for ukraine, right, ms. williams? i would say because of this significant relationship between the eu and ukraine, that would fall to ambassador sondland. obviously we have an ambassador in ukraine as well. colonel vindman, you would agree? i agree with ms. williams. lieutenant colonel, you said in your written statement that mayor rudolph giuliani defied policy. i said false narrative in the record this morning, but i have not met him. so you never had a conversation with him about ukraine or been in a meeting where he spoke to others about ukraine? no, just his comments on tv and the news. similarly, you ve never met the president of the united states, sfl ....
Prices. that s why we don t ask you those questions. for one thing, you may not be aware of all the facts brought forward in this investigation. i yield back. you were in a july 10 meeting at the white house with ambassador bolton, correct? correct. in that meeting ukraines asked about when they would get their oval office meeting, and ambassador sondland replied that they needed to, quote, speak about ukraine delivering specific information and meeting with the president, end quote. is that correct? that is correct. did you ever learn why ambassador bolton cut the meeting short? i didn t. after the meeting ended, some of the ones who attended went to a different room in the white house called the war room, is ....
Bidens of burisma came up and i think you said they did not. is that correct? that s correct, they did not come up. now, that bilateral meeting was a large meeting that involved two or three dozen people, wasn t it? it was. so in the context of this meeting with two or three dozen people, the vice president didn t bring up those investigations, correct? no, he did not bring up those investigations. he s never brought up those investigations. were you aware that immediately, and i mean immediately, after that meeting broke up, ambassador sondland has said that he went over to mr. yermak, one of the top advisers to zelensky, and told yermak that if they wanted the military aid, they were going to have to do these investigations or words to that effect? i was not aware at the time of any meetings, side meetings that ambassador sondland had, following the vice president s meeting with president zelensky. i ve only learned that through ambassador sondland s testimony. ....