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Recognize those motions over the last few days of this impeachment inquisition process. with that, i'll go to m mr. castor. thank you, ranking member nunes. the call transcript as published on september 25th is complete and accurate, will both of you attest to that? ms. williams? >> i didn't take a word-for-word accounting. when i first saw the publicly released version, it looked substantively correct to me. >> colonel vindman? >> i certainly would describe it as substantively correct. >> i think in your testimony in your deposition you said very accurate? >> correct. >> and you flagged a cou...

Trip that was ultimately published, you thought president zelensky mentioned the word burisma. >> i had it in my notes. i know that's what he said, yes. >> and that was on page 4, correct? >> correct. >> and ms. william, i believe after your deposition you went back and checked your notes and you had president zelensky using the term burisma as well, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> but that came up on a different part of the transcript than what colonel vindman was relating to, correct? >> yes. i believe so. >> yours came up on page 5 and it would have been in substitution for the word ...

Okay, we've got the page. >> okay. and then you went on to say -- you agreed with me and said i guess you could interpret it different ways, is that correct? >> yes. >> okay. turning your attention to the preparation of the transcript. that followed the ordinary process, correct? >> so i think it followed the appropriate process in terms of making sure that eventually it came around for clearances, for accuracy, but it was in a different system. >> i'll get to that in a second. that relates to the storage of it. you had some concerns, mr. morrison articulated his concerns about if the transcri...

Correction that burisma should have been included? >> not necessarily. the way these edits occur, they go through like everything else, an approval process. i made my contribution. it was cleared by mr. morrison. then when i returned -- you know, sometimes that doesn't happen. there are administrative errors. i think in this case when i first saw the transcript without the two substantive items that i had attempted to include, i didn't see that as nefarious. i just thought no big deal. >> you said two substantive issues. what was the other one? >> there was a reference in a section -- on page ...

Certainly could be characterized as hedging. on page 3, in the first paragraph, he talks about whatever you can do, he talks about if that's possible. on page 4, he mentions if you could speak to him, talking about the attorney general, rudy giuliani, and then at the end of the first paragraph on page 4 he says whatever you can do. the president also says if you can look into it, and i asked you during your deposition whether you saw or acknowledged the fact that certain people could read that to be ambiguous. >> and i said correct, yes. >> and i believe you said i think people want to hear wh...