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Give an expletive about ukraine. ambassador sondland stated the president only cares about big stuff. i noted there was a war with russia going on in ukraine. ambassador sondland said replied that he meant big stuff that benefits the president, like the biden investigation. was the president putting his own political interests above u.s. national security concerns? >> if this is not the definition of self-dealing, i don't know what is. david holmes is thoughtful and detail- detail-orient detail-oriented. he indicates the president

Hesitation along the way? >> for public servants, no, real public servants believe in checks and balances, not any kind of loyalty pledge they make to this president. men like david holmes, ambassador taylor, who is still working for the u.s. government, all they want to do is their actual jobs. i think that david holmes wants to get back and he wants to be able to do his job absent influence from the president and proper influence from the president and his inner circle. the issue, fred, is these public servants are no longer able to do their jobs because of the self dealing coming from the o...

Sponsorship. >> the time of the gentleman has expired. we'll now move to 5-minute member rounds. i recognize myself for 5 minutes. mr. kent, i want to follow up on my colleagues' questions regarding burisma. you testified about a time when an oligarch was self-dealing awarding himself contracts. when was that? >> to the best of my knowledge, he was minister of energy -- sorry, minister of ecology from 2010-2012. at the time, licenses to have substrata exploration of gas for awarded by a subdivision of the ministry of ecology. >> so this corrupt self-dealing then was approximately seven years b...

Virtual theft of, you know, for example, the right to certain energy licenses, correct? >> that is one element, yes, sir. >> and the company burisma, its leader has a little bit of a storied history of corruption, doesn't he? >> he was minister of energy from 2010-2012 under the pro russian government and he used his regulatory authority to award gas exploration licenses to companies that he himself controlled. that would be considered an act of corruption in my view, yes. >> certainly self-dealing. >> certainly self-dealing and self-enriching. >> how did the ukrainian government ultimately pu...

2010-201 2010-201 2010-2012. hunter pa eer biden joined buri 2014. >> you've read the transcript of the call, haven't you? >> i have but i haven't read it for about a month. >> any discussion between president trump and president zelensky about this oligarch who had been self-dealing? >> to my knowledge, no. >> is there a discussion of awarding contracts to oneself in the time frame? >> to the best of my knowledge, no. >> the president brings up this crowd strike, the server and the bide bide bidens, am i right? >> i see this here, right. >> there was no mention of looking into oligarchs. the ...