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For the vice president's participation in the inauguration. dr. hill testified that she had no knowledge the vice president was directed not to attend. on may 16th, the outgoing ukrainian parliament scheduled the inauguration for may 20th and only four days later, may 20th was not one of the three days that vice president pence's office had provided for his availability. williams testified that there is early date surprise the vice president's office because we weren't expecting the ukrainians to look at their time frame. george kent at the state department said the short notice from the ukrai...

Finally the third time that president trump invited zelensky again to meet without any preconditions was during the july 25th phone call. although some time passed between may 2019 when the president formally invited zelensky to meet on september 25th when the presidents met, the evidence does not show that the ukrainian government felt additional pressure due to this delay. to the contrary, ambassador volker testified that the ukrainian regime felt pretty good about its relationship with the trump administration in this period. during those four months, senior ukrainian government officials h...

Pressuring ukraine to investigate former vice president biden. jennifer williams, a senior advisor in the office of the vice president testified that a colleague, chief of staff assistant told her the chief of staff assistant that president trump had directed vice president pence not to attend the inauguration. however, williams had no firsthand knowledge of any such direction for the reasons given for any such direction. indeed such a direction was given, it is not clear from the evidence why it was done. because the vice president's office was juggling other potential trips during that time,...

Over his discussion about investigations. ambassador sondland's testimony about this meeting however scattered. then his closed-door deposition, he testified that no national security staff members ever once expressed concerns to him that he was acting improperly. and he denied that he raised investigations during this meeting. but when he came here to testify in public, he acknowledged for the first time that he raised investigations but he denied that the meeting ended abruptly. he maintained that dr. hill never raise concerns to him and that any discussion of investigations did not mention ...

Everyone on the ukrainian side of the table was exhausted as they had been up all night working on these reforms. on september 11th, president trump discussed the matter with vice president pence, senator portman, and acting chief of staff mulvaney. according to tim morrison's testimony, they discussed whether ukraine's progress on anticorruption reform was enough to justify releasing the security assistance. morrison testified that vice president pence was obviously armed with the conversation he had with president zelensky and they convinced the president that the aid should be disbursed imm...