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mentorship and s.t.e.a.m. opportunities and how to develop opportunities for the work force and leverage the programs that the small business administration as well as other government agencies have for small businesses. let s talk about what you expect to come from this. shirley, let s start with you. it is one thing to be on a listening tour. it s another to put it in action. did you get the sense there s going to be something within this administration to help small businesses that is different than what we have seen before? i think, probably, just a greater awareness that we are out there. we are out there doing good work and the women who own them are serious and dedicated to the work we are doing. what do you think? i m very encouraged for two particular reasons. number one, ivanka trump was also at the table. she said it s one of her priorities. i think she is going to work closely with her father to make sure there s a positive impact on. she s very well spoken ....
you are recognized. thank you. madame ambassador, like a hallmark movie. you ended up at georgetown, this is all okay. [laughter] but it was not your preference seven or eight months ago, correct? no, it was not. it was not your preference to be a victim of a smear campaign, was it? no. it was not your preference to be defamed by the president of the united states including today, was it? no. it wasn t your preference to be ousted at seemingly the pinnacle of your career, was it? no. you wanted to finish your extended tour, correct? i did. what did you want to do after that? did you know? i was not sure. there is nothing wrong with georgetown, it is a fine place, right? it is a wonderful place. but it is your only choice at the end of a distinguished career after all of that. it is not the end of a hallmark movie. it is the end of a really bad reality tv show. brought to you by someone who knows a lot about that. [laughter] why did you, you previo ....
collecting it, they were not passing it to you, they were passing it to state department? department of defense? this is what they reported to me. i have not seen the documents that have been collected. i only know those documents that i have produced or that my staff at my staff has brought to my attention or that i have received. so no, i do not know what has happened with the documents that have been collected. same general question to you, sir. i requested it wants given access to documents that had originated or were sent to me for the pertinent matters of this investigation during a finite. back. i don t have information about what is going on in terms of other documents that i did not produce or do not receive. there was a move to gather them, and i understood generally and directly and informally that they had been gathered. that is the extent of my knowledge. it is not my area of responsibility. yes, but did they pass them on to you or did they pass them on to ....
expired. i d like to have that unanimous consent mr. quigley, you re recognized, mr. quigley, you re recognized. thank you. madam ambassador, it s like a hallmark movie. you ended up at georgetown, this is all okay. [ laughter ] it wasn t your preference seven, eight months ago, correct? no, it was not. it wasn t your preference to be the victim of a cemetery campaign, was it? no. it wasn t your preference to be defamed by the president of the united states including today, was it? no. it wasn t your preference to be ousted at seemingly the pinnacle of your career, was it? no. you wanted to finish your extended tour, correct? i did. what did you want to do after that? did you know? i wasn t sure. there s nothing wrong with georgetown. it s a fine place, right? it s a wonderful place. but it s your own choice at the end of the distinguished career after all that. it s not the end of a hallmark movie. it s the end of a really bad reality tv sh ....
today s proceedings. i would like to recap my recognition of the timeline in which these events played out. i testified about all of this at length in my deposition. in july, i became aware of a hold being an obligation of the state department s foreign military financing and dod s usai funds. in a series of interagency meetings, i heard that the president had directed the office of of management and budget to hold the funds becausf his concerns about corruption in ukraine. let me say at the outset that i have never discussed this or any other matter with the president and never heard directly from him about this matter. at a senior level meeting i attended on july 26, chaired by national security council leadership, as at all other interagency meetings on this topic of which i was aware, the national security community expressed unanimous support for resuming the funding as in the u.s. national security interest. at the july 26 meeting, there was a discussion of how ukrainian ....