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While in kyiv, he met with then ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch and found her to be an excellent diplomat with a deep command of ukrainian internal dynamics. on april 21st, mr. zelensky was elected president and spoke to president trump who congratulated him and said he would look into attending zelensky's inauguration but pledged to send someone at a very, very high level. between the time of that call and the inaugural on may 20, trump's attitude towards ukraine hardened. on may tlaent, the president ordered vice president mike pence not to attend zelensky's inauguration opting inste...

>> 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...

Pressure the ukrainian president that deviated sharply from the norm in terms of policy and process. in february, ambassador sondland travelled to ukraine on the first official trip to that country. while in kyiv, he met with ambassador yovanovitch and found her to be an excellent diplomat with dynamics. zelensky spoke to president trump after being elected who congratulated him and said he would look into attending his inauguration, but pledged to send someone at a very, very high level. between the time that have call and may 20, trump's attitude toward ukraine hardened. may 14th, the presid...

Preparation experience, right? >> that's correct. >> and do you know if the secret service booked hotels or anything of the sort? >> our advance team was looking into the preparations including hotel availability and we were trying to determine when it would be appropriate to send out secret service and other advance personnel to lay ground work for a trip. because we weren't sure when the date would be, we hesitated to send those officials out. >> ultimately the secret service did not deploy. >> i don't believe they did. no. >> and the president zelensky's inauguration was may 20th if i'm not...

Committee that oversees the cavities with ukraine and the united states among other positions you hold in the united states senate. we have this document that came out, the president's phonecall a transcript of it that the president of ukraine. in fact back in july and people are trying to, the democrats in particular, say the president was seeking a quid pro quo. i don't read this in here. you have this sum back roundedness. you hadan a meeting with the president in may of this year. do you want to tell us about that? >> sure and the transcript i think it's a pretty gracious phonecall on the ...