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White house visit for president zelensky. mr. giuliani demanded that ukraine make a public statement announcing investigations of the 2016 election, dnc server, and burisma. mr. giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the united states. and we knew that these investigations were important to the president. later, you testified, i tried diligently to ask why the aid was suspended but i never received a clear answer. in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid, i later came to believe that the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a p...

Later, on the subject of security aid, you testified in the absence of any credible explanation for the hold, i came to the conclusion that the aid, like the white house visit, was jeopardized in preparation for a -- the september 1 meeting in warsaw, i asked secretary pompeo whether a face-to-face conversation between trump with zelensky could help break the log jam. and this is from an e-mail that the state department refuses to provide to us but you have provided to us, ambassador. it reads, should we block time in warsaw for a short pull-aside for potus to meet zelensky? i would ask zelens...

To where are we at today, obstruction of justice and back to quid pro quo. we wouldn't have had to do all that if the whistle-blower would have testified. you wouldn't have to speculate about what the whistle-blower only had in his or her complaint that nobody seems to know. yield back to mr. castro. >> thanks you, mr. nunes. i want to turn to your -- a couple times in your opener you said everyone was in the loop and i just want to -- you know, the -- these televised proceedings sometimes we lose track of things and, you know, everyone was not in the loop with your speculation or your guess t...

It came even as the congress is about to press him into releasing the suspended ukrainian security aid. and you could -- you can -- you can ask questions about whether or not that was a genuine reflection of what he did want at least in may and july and august and other times when he had been talking to his advisors about what to do with ukraine and president zelensky. >> peter, i love talking to you because you are in the same job you covered the white house in which i served. but can you imagine, i mean, what happened today, trump does a volume business and i have this worry that we may glos...

Pull-aside conversation that here, ambassador sondland. happened within a few seconds. >> okay. i told mr. yermak that i >> you've testified that the believed that the resumption of u.s. aid would likely not occur white house meeting that president zelensky separately until ukraine took some kind of wanted, and that was very action on the public statement important to president zelensky, was it not? that we been discussing for many >> absolutely. >> you've testified that that weeks. as my other state department meeting was conditioned, was a colleagues have testified, this security aid was cri...