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Lifted and you covered that with the chairman. you had the press conference of october 17th, when mick mulvaney let the foley out of the bag and said the president talked about, quoting the corruption related to the dnc server and admitted, quote, that's why we held up the money. any other explanation for the hold is a farce. in my remaining 30 seconds, just so people understand what i referred to. in the 1970s, richard nixon just arbitrarily decided, i don't know because he had a general skip skepticism of foreign aid or his motives, richard nixon decided to hold up congressionally mandated a...

This in your opening statement, the government of ukraine has taken substantial actions to make defense institutional reforms for the purposes of decreasing corruption, increasing accountability and sustaining improvements of combat capability enabled by u.s. assistance. so, by the time president trump froze the aid, the department of defense had spent weeks, if not months, determining that the ukrainian government met every requirement in the law, and made significant strides in combatting corruption, is that correct? >> that is correct. we made that determination in may. >> this wasn't about...

Giuliani and this time in that may to september, he mentioned the biden investigation. he mentioned biden over 50 times and 20-something times in relation to ukraine. none of that stirred your curiosity? did you now finally come to this point? >> as i testified, i met with mr. giuliani once and he did bring up vice president biden and i pushed back on that and i maintained a very clear distinction that ukraine investigating its own citizens and corruption would be fine going beyond that to say we'll investigate the vice president is not fine. >> did you have any discussions with anyone in the ...

>> do you think the ukrainians have a similar understanding? >> yes, i do. there is also a perception that when ambassador yovanovitch who we've all known for 33 years of being an awesome ambassador that when she left kiev that the u.s. position on corruption would weaken. that's a narrative that's floating around. who was the person that took over for her in the interim? what was the charger. >> immediately after masha was joe pennington. >> this was individual strong or weak on corruption? >> i would say in line with all the rest of our policy. >> and after that individual who was that perso...

Again, there were no demands from your perspective, mr. morrison. >> that is correct, sir. >> so -- speculations about the whistle-blower aside with regard to motivation, the whistle-blower was wrong about many of the facts as well, correct? >> i'm not familiar with the whistle-blower complaint, but i did not hear demand in the call. >> i yield back. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ambassador volker, i want to thank you for being here today, and i, frankly, found some of your opening statement top genuine and downright eloquent. in particular, i noted the passage of supporting the development of a...