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>> so you can't rule out the possibility of the reason why he started talking that way on my day is because of the congressional investigation. >> i can't rule it out. >> the inauguration of president zelensky was on may 20. >> correct. >> as you stated, you attended the inauguration with senator johnson, secretary perry, lieutenant colonel vindman, and others. >> correct. >> vice president pence was supposed to attend it. >> i believe so. >> we learned from jennifer williams, a witness who testified that it was at the president's direction on may 13, that the vice president not attend. she sa...

My recollection of some of the events that i expect the committee may ask me about. on april 21, volodymyr zelensky won the ukranian presidential election. on april 23, the vice president called to congratulate president-elect zelensky. during the call, which i participated in, the instead accepted an invitation to attend his upcoming inauguration proitd t provided the scheduling worked out. the vice president only had a narrow win deof availability and the ukranian parliament would not meet to set a date for the inauguration until after may 14. as a result, we did not expect to know whether t...

Williams, was it your understanding that the president wanted the vice president to attend the inauguration? >> yes, that was my understanding. >> and did the president subsequently tell the vice president not to attend the inauguration? >> i was informed by our chief of staff's office, the have not's chief of staff's office, that the president had told the vice president not to attend. i did not witness that conversation. >> and am i correct that you learned this on may 13th, is is that right? >> that's right. >> am i also correct that the inauguration date had not been set by may 13 snth. >>...

Aid that is required for that ukrainian people to defend themselves against the russians being held up for purely political individual personal political agenda here in the united states. it just really egregious. >> "washington post" reporting that putin and hungry prime minister helped sour trump on ukraine. take a look. this is a time line. may 3 trump and russian president putin speak on the phone. trump wants his opinion on ukrainian president zelensky. may 13 he meets with hundred garn prime minister. he solidified the pessimistic view of ukraine. "new york times" reports trump called th...

And when you read that, it's just dreadful to think that the aid that is required for that ukrainian people to defend themselves against the russians being held up for purely political individual personal political agenda here in the united states. it just really egregious. >> "washington post" reporting that putin and hungary prime minister orban helped sour trump on ukraine. take a look. this is a timeline. may 3 trump and russian president putin speak on the phone. trump wants his opinion on ukrainian president zelensky. may 13 he meets with hungarian prime minister. he solidified the pessi...