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Wanted to do and had agreed to a meeting. so i was working -- i was tracking that we needed to schedule a meeting. >> you were not endorsing the notion of president zelensky sending a message about investigations, is that your testimony? >> that is my testimony. >> ambassador volker, i want to jump ahead. after the aid was released, you went to the yes conference, right, in ukraine? and are you aware of that ambassador taylor, who testified based on quite detailed notes, indicated that earlier, a few days before that, ambassador sondland had told him that president trump is a businessman, and ...

It than yours? zelensky and senior u.s. >> i have no reason to doubt their notes, if there were notes officials, right? starts with the call with president trump and president taken contemporaneously at the zelensky. next day you meet with president meeting. >> another witness testified before us, laura cooper, about a zelensky in ukraine and then we meeting that she had with you on have ambassador bolton meeting -- then we have vice july -- on august 20th. do you recall having that president pence meeting with meeting with her? him. then we have u.s. senators because you didn't mention it in ...

Had conversations with both. so i get to ask you, you had a meeting with the president of the united states and you believe the policy issues he raised concerning ukraine were valid, correct? >> yes. >> did the president of the united states ever say to you that he was not going to allow aid to the united states to go to the ukraine unless there were investigations into burisma, the bidens, or the 2016 elections? >> no, he did not. >> did the ukrainians ever tell you that they understood they would not get a meeting with the president of the united states, phone call with the president of the ...

Hesitate to say did he ever raise it. but he did not raise it at the time of the 25 july phone call. >> okay. switching gears a little bit, you strike me as a process guy. and it's nagging at me because you characterized the ambassador sondland's linking, in whatever way it happened, of aid to an investigation as the gordon problem, you said it caused you to roll your eyes. ambassador volker said everybody in the july 10th meeting thought it was inappropriate. john bolton characterizes this as the drug deal. it seems like everybody in the room understands there's a huge problem here. my unders...

President z convinces trump he representative turner and bothers me. will investigate, quote, get to you were the special envoy to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail down date for yeah y ukraine, and in that role you said in your opening statement you are the administration's visit to washington. that's what you expected from the call, right? most public figure in calling >> yeah, i expected that out russia's responsibility in president zelensky would be convincing in his, uh, the war, is that right? >> that is correct. statements and comments with >> and in that capacity you pr...