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that it indicated to you that he had been prepped for the call, to expect this issue to come up. what led you to that conclusion? it seemed unlikely that he would be familiar with a single company in the context of a call that had that was on the broader bilateral relationship, and it seemed to me that he was either tracking this issue because it was in the press or he was otherwise prepped. mr. goldman. thank you, mr. chairman. good morning to both of you. good morning. on july 25th at approximately 9:00 a.m. you both were sitting in the situation room, probably not too much further away than you are right now, and you were preparing for a long-awaited phone call between president trump and president zelensky. now, colonel vindman, in advance of this phone call, did you prepare talking points as you did for the april 21st call? yes, i did. what were those talking points based upon? they were so this is not in the public record and i can t comment to deeply ....
does. but his aides and his campaign, the white house, they have been sending out very negative messages about lieutenant colonel vindman. they tried to use something morrison said behind closed doors when he said there were people that questioned vindman s judgment at nsc, specifically fiona hill that we ll hear from thursday. i his opening statement, i think he realized how much play that has got. he said he wasn t here to criticize his colleagues. saw vindman prepared to address it as he was there to testify earlier. he brought a performance review from fiona hill, the official, that morrison had the conversation with, where it praised him multiple times and his performance in the job. you see tim morrison and kurt volker, beginning to walk back in. they ll sit down and the hearing will resume. the next round will be the five minute sessions where all of the members, democrats and republicans, they have five minutes to ask questions. it will start with the chairman, ada ....
base of the republican party and to me. so i believe that he was at with very few defections. that may change, but right now i least affected by those and believed those and believed they were think that s a correct negative? assessment by the white house, believed that they were that they ve got the senate tied negative and was conveying them up in a way that will protect to the president. so was it problematic that he the president from actually being removed from office. believed they were negative i think the two variables, views? yes, the whole thing was ned, would, in my guess, drawing problematic. ambassador taylor testified on my past sort of in republican that on july 2nd, you told politics, would be public ukrainians that they needed to, quote, cooperate on opinion, should you see attacks investigations, end quote. you re now saying that you don t on colonel vindman inching this recall saying those words; is from 51% support to 53, 54, 55. that correct? i ....
expired. i d like to have that unanimous consent mr. quigley, you re recognized, mr. quigley, you re recognized. thank you. madam ambassador, it s like a hallmark movie. you ended up at georgetown, this is all okay. [ laughter ] it wasn t your preference seven, eight months ago, correct? no, it was not. it wasn t your preference to be the victim of a cemetery campaign, was it? no. it wasn t your preference to be defamed by the president of the united states including today, was it? no. it wasn t your preference to be ousted at seemingly the pinnacle of your career, was it? no. you wanted to finish your extended tour, correct? i did. what did you want to do after that? did you know? i wasn t sure. there s nothing wrong with georgetown. it s a fine place, right? it s a wonderful place. but it s your own choice at the end of the distinguished career after all that. it s not the end of a hallmark movie. it s the end of a really bad reality tv sh ....
that is correct. you explained earlier that your job in the white house was to coordinate united states and ukraine policy, is that right? it is to coordinate united states policy vis-à-vis ukraine, correct. you testified in the spring of this year that these officials, these ukrainian officials began asking you, quote, advice on how to respond to mr. giuliani s advances, end quote. is that correct? that is correct. what do you understand they meant by mr. giuliani s advances? i understood that to mean both his public commentary, so publicly calling for investigations into 2016, burisma, and hunter biden, as well as his direct overtours to the government of ukraine directly and through proxies. that s what i understood. as you understand it, under whose authority do you think mr. giuliani was acting under? congresswoman, i don t know. did the ukrainian officials you were speaking to tell you that they were being asked to i m sorry, can you say that aga ....