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>> that was corrected no witness testified there was any review or investigation of any sort related to the ukraine and aid. >> is it true that the defense department determined not to conduct a review on ukraine after the president froze the military aid because ukraine had already met all of the corruption benchmarks in may of 2019? >> yes, and everyone involved in ukraine policy believed that they were on the right path and president zelensky in particular. >> in addition to ukraine having satisfied all the relevant corruption assessment prior to u.s. military aid being withheld, there is s...

September 7th in a call with ambassador sondland. mr. goldman, did you receive testimony about this september 7 call? >> yes, we received testimony from three witnesses about it and it gets a little complicat complicated. but that was a consistent refrain through all of the witnesses is the president did say "no quid pro quo." >> mr. morrison that same date? >> mr. morrison then reported to master taylor, correct? >> that's correct, yes. >> both mr. morrison and ambassador taylor took most of those instructions, yes question marks because they did. >> whether notes or the nose produceto the co...

Intervened inour election? >> that is absolutely correct. >> mr. castor? >> that's correct -- >> thank you. i reclaim my time. no witnesses testified in support of that theory before your committee. mr. gorman, isn't it also true that your committee in fact recy indicating that there is evidene that russia is impart perpetrating this false theory that ukraine interfered because russia wants to deflect flame domain blame for its own involvement? >> that is correct. we have evidence of that and we have to know what is evidence and what is your media reports for speculation, because there is no e...

Withheld, it was made, and i quote, abundantly clear to them that if they wanted the aid, and i wquote, they were going to he to make these statements. mr. goldman, beginning on and around the 25th of july call through september, would you agree that consistent with the testimony we just reviewed, ukraine was made aware that to receive our military aid and the white house visit, that they wereit going to have to make a statement announcing the investigations? >> not only were they made aware. but they were made aware either by president trump's proxy, rudy giuliani. or from president trump him...

Complaint, after "the washington post" report, and after congress launched the investigations that president trump finally released the aid? >> that's right. and -- and i would just add one thing briefly to the congressman's point. that it is true that president trump has given more military assistance than president obama. and so one would wonder if he does support militaryou assistae so much, why then is he holding it up for more than two months? >> and matter of fact, lieutenant colonel vindman testified that people at the nsc, in fact, discussed that congress's investigation, quote, might ...