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About fighting corruption, we should also say specifically, burisma in 2016. Mr. Yermak provided me a statement. I wanted to be assured that this statement would actually correct the perception that mr. Giuliani had of ukraine and what they stand for now so that that would also be conveyed to President Trump and solve this problem that i had observed with our may 23rd meeting with the president. The problem being that he is getting a bad set of information, a Statement Like this could potentially correct that. Was mr. Guiliani satisfied with the statement . No, he was not. He believed it neede...

Correct? >> very terse readout, yes. >> in this readout, was there any reference to withholding aid? >> there was none. >> any reference to bribery? >> there was none. >> any reference to quid pro quo? >> there was none. >> any reference to extortion? there was none. >> i assume you got feedback from your ukrainian counterparts? did they mention any withholding aid or quid pro quo? >> no, they did not. >> did they mention any bribery? >> no, they did not. speak of the day the call you met with president zelensky on e made no mention of a quid pro quo. he made no mention of withholding to aid o...

President. and i had met with president poroshenko, i had met with others in the opposition as well, and i wanted to call mr. yermak's attention to the potential problems of this. i'm very familiar with other examples of countries in the region that have gone for prosecutions of the former government and these have created deep divisions in society. so i cited president zelensky's inauguration speech. i'm sorry, his national day speech from august 24th that was all about unifying the country. and i cautioned mr. yermak to say that pursuing prosecution of president poroshenko risks deepening th...

Clear to the ukrainians, this is what the conversation was. >> mr. ambassador, if you believe the statement that mr. guiliani dictated in august was not a good idea, why were the ukrainian still considering giving an interview with the same themes in september? >> if i may, congressman, i conveyed this to the ukrainians in order to be clear so we knew what the conversation was about. it was following up on this prior conversation. the ukrainians then said they had reasons not to do that, they described those reasons, then they agreed to scrap the statement. from that point on i didn't have any...

You didn't say, wow, the president is bribing the president of ukraine. that didn't cross your mind, or that he was extorting the president of ukraine. >> it did not, sir. >> or doing anything improper. >> correct, sir. >> have you read in the media where it president zelensky agrees with you and has said consistently that he didn't hear any demand or any commissions, he didn't feel any pressure, he didn't experience anything improper or corrupt on the call. >> at the u.s. general assembly, he made clear that he felt no pressure. >> did anyone on the national security council after this call e...