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White house on july 25th or the 26th and if so, with whom? >> yes, i did. my core function is to coordinate u.s. government policy. i spoke to two individuals with regards to providing some sort of read-out of the call. >> two individuals that were not in the white house. >> not in the white house. cleared u.s. government officials with appropriate need to know. >> what agencies were these officials with? >> department of state, department of state, deputy assistant secretary george kent who is responsible for the portfolio eastern europe including ukraine. and an individual from the office of...

At the nsc i'm the principal advisor fought national security advisor for ukraine. to develop, oh order nate and implement plans and policies to manage economic and national security issues the countries in my portfolio. my core function is to coordinate function with agencies. the committee has heard from many of my colleagues as the importance of ukraine as a bull work against russian aggression. promoting ukrainian prosperity and a free and democratic ukraine as a counter to russian aggression has been a consistent, bipartisan foreign policy objective and strategy across various administrat...

After that, once i made that -- expressed my concerns, it was an extremely week. we had a pcc just finish, we had the call, and then a deputy's meeting, which consumed all of my time. i was working extremely long days. i attempted to try to communicate to -- i managed to speak to two folks in the interagency. i attempted to try to talk to mr. morrison. that didn't happen before i received struninstructions from eisenberg to not talk to anybody else any further. >> so the lawyer -- you not only didn't go to your boss, you went straight to the lawyer and the lawyer told you not to go to your bos...

Call with anyone outside the white house on july 25th or the 26th, and if so, if whom? >> yes, i did -- my core function is to coordinate u.s. government policy, inter-agency policy and i spoke with two individuals with regards to providing some sort of readout of the call. >> two individuals that were not in the white house? >> not in the white house. cleared u.s. government officials with appropriate need to know. >> and what agencies were these officials with? >> department of state, department of state deputy assistant secretary george kent, who was responsible for the portfolio, eastern e...

Boeing. flying, going through safety, going through all of the things, taking off your shoes and making sure that you are safe on that airline is something that everybody can relate to and it's something -- that's a core function that we think of the government being in charge of, protecting people from. >> this is something, i want to go back to something ruth said, matt. i'm surprised if i were at the trump white house, this story would petra phi -- would actually petra phi actually. he. hetry phi me. it's his agents, meaning he's appointing these folks. should this could be on them, they sh...