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mean, that s the appropriate way to raise an issue with the ukrainian president, correct? it s appropriate for the justice department and the prosecutor general to cooperate and to exchange information, yes. to the extent the president has concerns and to the extent the attorney general is having u.s. attorney durham look into it, isn t it entirely appropriate for the president to flag this for president zelensky and say youn touch with our official channels? mr. castor, i don t know the precise appropriateness of these kinds of relations. now, were either of you involved with the preparation for the 7/25 call? i was not. i was not. how do you account for that? i mean, you were two of the key officials with responsibility for ukrainian policy. if the president of the united states is going to have a call with the leader of ukraine, why wouldn t you ordinarily be involved with the preparation? sir, we work for the department of state in an embassy overseas. prep ....
i really mean it when i say i could talk to these friends for another hour. my thanks to all of them, and mostly to you for watching. chuck todd with mtp daily starts now. welcome to tuesday. it is meet the press daily. good evening. i m chuck todd in washington where another round of potential bombshell testimony as the president and his allies once again struggle to defend him as democrats unveil their official road map for the next phase of the impeachment inquiry. this afternoon the house laid out a resolution that will lay out the rules and procedures that will govern the next phase that will include public hearings and the official rollout of the impeachment. it will include an ability for president trump to have attorneys around. meanwhile, there was more potentially explosive testimony in the investigation itself from lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. he is a purple heart recipient, a national security official who was in on the infamous phone call with the u ....
president, correct? it s appropriate for the justice department and the prosecutor general to cooperate and to exchange information, yes. but to the extent that the president has concerns and to the extent that the attorney general is having u.s. attorney durham look into it, isn t it entirely appropriate for the president to flag this for president zelensky and say that you should be in touch with our official channels? mr. castor, i don t know the precise appropriateness of these kind of relations. now, were you involved, either of you involved with the preparation for the 7/25 call? i was not. i was not. and how do you account for that? i mean, you were the two of the key officials with responsibility for ukrainian policy. if the president of the united states is going to have a call with the leader of the ukraine, why wouldn t you ordinarily be involved with preparation? sir, we work for the department of state in an embassy overseas and in preparation for ....
that a businessman would have knowledge is limited in any when he is about to sign a transaction. but if you go after his integrity, right, if you go check. and by that he clearly meant after his public service, if you go after his military record, that president trump was you re done. thinking about or had in front but chuck, isn t there a high stakes problem with that, for of him the possibility of providing security assistance to trump and the republicans to say, because then the next question is, okay, who does know ukraine. it was similar to writing a check to someone who you re what trump said? bolton and trump. about to send. he used that analogy very and they don t want those folks to come before congress. i absolutely agree. i m saying if there is a path to clearly to indicate that this try and point out that he has limited knowledge, that s the would be this would require path and it s a narrow one. something. if that person owed him does it ultimately work? no, it ....
that it indicated to you that he had been prepped for the call, to expect this issue to come up. what led you to that conclusion? it seemed unlikely that he would be familiar with a single company in the context of a call that had that was on the broader bilateral relationship, and it seemed to me that he was either tracking this issue because it was in the press or he was otherwise prepped. mr. goldman. thank you, mr. chairman. good morning to both of you. good morning. on july 25th at approximately 9:00 a.m. you both were sitting in the situation room, probably not too much further away than you are right now, and you were preparing for a long-awaited phone call between president trump and president zelensky. now, colonel vindman, in advance of this phone call, did you prepare talking points as you did for the april 21st call? yes, i did. what were those talking points based upon? they were so this is not in the public record and i can t comment to deeply ....