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Spend a lot of effort and a lot of time for ukraine, much more than the european countries are doing, and they should be helping you more than we are. germany does almost nothing for you. all they do is talk. i think it's something you should really ask them about. he goes on to say he talks to angela merkel about it, and that they're not really doing as much as the united states is doing. he's raising burden sharing. president zelensky agreed with him. manager schiff also suggested there was evidence of some connection between the military assistance and investigations into 2016 election inte...

Manager schiff suggested that there was no evidence the president was actually interested in burden sharing because he didn't apparently, according to david hale, raise it in the telephone conversation he had with gordon sondland he claims to have overheard in kyiv. look at the overwhelming evidence. as we explained june 24th, there is an e-mail in the record showing, an e-mail from one person from the department of defense to another, potus follow-up, president of the united states follow-up, asking specifically about burden sharing. it says, quote what do other nato members spend to support ...

And said he was holding up this aid because he wanted ukraine to conduct these political investigations that would help him in the next election. if you have any questions, a factor, a v factor, a quarter of the factor, all of the factor, there is a witness a subpoena away who can answer that question. but the overwhelming body of the evidence makes it very clear. on july 26th, the day after that phone call, donald trump speaks to gordon sondland at the conversation at the ukraine restaurant. what does gordon sondland -- what is the president's question of gordon sondland the day after that ca...

Zielinski was committed to the issues he campaigned on, anti-corruption reforms. mr. morrison also testified the administration was working on the president's concerns regarding burden sharing. here's mr. morrison. >> was there any activity with the state department or defense department to look into that for the president? >> we were surveying the data to understand who was contributing what and sort of in what categories. >> so the presidency presents concerns and the agency tried to address them? >> yes. >> how else do we know that the president was awaiting information on burden sharing an...

President pence told president zelensky. vice president pence met with president zelensky. remember, this was three days, three days after president zelensky learned about the review of the security assistance, and just as vice president pence and his aides anticipated, williams testified that once the cameras left the room the very first question that president zelensky had was about the status of the security assistance. the vice president responded by asking about two things. burden sharing and corruption.