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Text message. i'm asking you about your that zelensky should be able to move forward publicly and with conversations with mr. morrison and ambassador taylor after you spoke with the president, either confidence on those issues of in that call or in a different importance to potus and the u.s. call. >> i'm confused, mr. chairman. hopefully that will help break which conversations with the log jam. mr. morrison and mr. taylor? the secretary replied yes. >> well, mr. morrison testified i followed up the next day that you relayed a conversation you had with the president in which the president tol...

Relayed your belief that they needed to announce these investigations prior to the aid being released? >> i said i didn't know exactly why but this could be a reason. >> obviously, you had been speaking with mr. yermak for quite a while about a public announcement about the investigations. >> we had been working toward that end. >> so you said that security aid is now involved in that. >> as said -- i said it could have been involved, yes. >> now, i'm going to show you another text exchange you had on september 1st where ambassador taylor says to you are we now saying that white house meeting ...

Will he put words in the president's mouth that suggested the president himself wanted to link the security aid, for instance, to a promise of these investigations. that's not clear. what he has said in the amended testimony he gave, the declaration he sent to the committee after he got caught out with other witnesses' testimony was that he presumed that this security aid must be linked to these investigations because they had been suspended for so long. there seemed to be no other explanation. he didn't express in that declaration the president told him that. that's going to be key. everybody...

Security council and the state department knew the important details of our efforts. the suggestion that we were engaged in some irregular or rogue diplomacy is absolutely false. i have now identified certain state department emails and messages that provide contemporaneous support for my view. these emails show that the leadership of the state department, the national security council and the white house were all informed about the ukraine efforts from may 23rd, 2019 until the security aid was released on september 11th, 2019. i will quote from some of those messages with you shortly. fourth,...

Aggression. i tried diligently to ask why the aid was suspended, but i never received a clear answer. still haven't to this day. 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 public statement from ukraine committing to the investigations of the 2016 and burisma, as mr. giuliani had demanded. i shared concerns of the potential quid pro quo regarding the security aid with senator ron johnson, and i also shared my concerns with the ukrainians. finally, at all times, i was acting i...