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Ukraine as having been sufficient -- and made sufficient progress to continue to receive military assistance? >> i don't know the details of that, but i believe that to be correct. >> president zelensky based largely on his effort and advocacy for anticorruption. >> that is correct. >> is it not true that it was expanded on july 21st when his party won one party control. >> that is correct. >> in fact, subsequently he enacted sweeping reforms to combat anticorruption, did he not? >> yes, he has. >> is it not true that everybody on the ground thought or was filled with optimism that ukraine was...

You that i appreciate your opening statement and you talk about letters signed and sharing leadership in your assigned country and agreeing with and sometimes disagreeing with the leadership of your own country when you felt it was appropriate. you're the boots on the ground for the administration. let's face it, you're part of that team that is there to serve the country and in that way, and that all to me sound like the works of a very good diplomat and i want to thank you for that. >> thank you, sir. >> it's truly appreciated. corruption was a concern legitimately in ukraine, and in many wa...

>> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm delight to follow mr. ratcliffe because he just perfectly summarized the defense my republican colleagues are mounting of this behavior. the defense goes like this. the president is acting on some deep historical concern apparently invisible concern about corruption, and that because he's so concerned about corruption in ukraine he's holding up aid and being prudent and judicious. the first part of that is pretty easy to dispose of because president trump wasn't worried about corruption in ukraine. in the two conversations he had with the president on ukraine ap...

On the aid in july, it appears, back in may, miss cooper, i believe you said there was aid that was conditioned, but you certified in may that the conditions had been met, and they included progress on command and control reform, commitment to pursue defense industry reform and past laws to enable government to procurement. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> then, when you find out in july they're concerned about corruption, you're scratching your head, were you not? >> yes, ma'am. >> do you know of any effort that was undertaken then to assess the corruption in ukraine, in june, july, aug...

Illegal. miss cooper, i want you to help wang through this, since the impound act of 1974, the president has not had the authority on a whim or out of prudence or general skepticism of foreign aid to stop foreign aid. under our constitution it's the congress, not the president that controls the pow over the purse, correct? >> yes, sir. >> the security assistance -- the assistance authorized to ukraine was authorized and appropriate rated by the congress, correct? >> so congress is also concerned about corruption. it wants to insure american foreign assistance is spent wisely and does not worse...