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Through june 1st where the president could attend the inauguration and that was communicated and if it wasn't one of those dates, it would be difficult or impossible to attend the inauguration. separately, the office of the vice president was also planning an unrelated trip to canada to promote the usmca during this same window. the usmca was and still is a significant priority for the administration. vice president pence has done a number of public events in support of it. president trump was also planning foreign travel during this time period. and as dr. hill testified, both president trump...

Provided information about which foreign countries were contribute money to ukraine. president trump told senator johnson we are reviewing it now and you will probably like my final decision. he told ambassador sondland on september 9th, i want zelensky to do what he ran on. president zelensky who ran on an anticorruption platform was at a ties to a potential controversial oligarch. vice president pence reiterated president zelensky that on september 1st, the need for reform was paramount. after president zelensky paused -- after president zelensky passed historic anticorruption reforms, the p...

Zelensky's inauguration as another way of pressuring ukraine to investigate former vice presidentga biden. jennifer williams, a senior advisor in the officeio of the vice president, testified that a colleague -- she said it was the chief of staff's assistant -- told her, the chief of staff's assistant, that president trump hadsi directed vice president pence not to attend the inauguration. however, williams had no firsthand knowledge of any such direction or the reasons given for any such direction. if indeed such a direction was given, it's not clear from the evidence why it was done because ...

Factors created a narrow window for the vice president's participation in the inauguration. dr. hill testified that she had no knowledge that the vice president wasno directed not to attend. on may 16th, the outgoing ukrainian parliament scheduled the inauguration for may 20th, only four days later. may 20th was not one of the three dates that vice president pence's officeth had provided f his availability. williams testified that this early datefi surprised the vice president's office because we weren't expecting the ukrainians to look at that time frame. george kent said the short notice fro...

This testimony in his submission to the impeachment inquiry. finally the third time that president trump invited zelensky to meet again 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 and september 25th when the president's 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 feltfi pretty good abt its relationship with the trump administration in this period. during th...