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I'm just telling you, the ranking member -- no disrespect to you. i'd like to go back to your previous testimony earlier today. much has been talked about as we have discussed between the president trump and president zelensky on the word favor. and of this being interpreted as a basis for impeachment. i can paraphrase and feel free to correct me, you said in the military culture which you and i are both familiar with, when a superior officer asked for a favor, they will interpret that as a demand. is that a fair synopsis of what you previously stated? >> when a superior makes a request, that'...

Let people off the hook? >> i'm not an attorney but it doesn't seem so. >> i don't think your brother would think so either. your -- a voracious reader of his intelligence read a book and after the april 21 call with president zelensky you put a transcript of that call in the vice president's read book, correct? >> that's correct. >> then the vice president called president zelensky two days later. you told us in the deposition that he stuck pretty faithfully to what president trump had said in that april 21 call, is that right? >> i believe his remarks were consistent but he also spoke on oth...

Is president trump a member of the military? is president zelensky a member of the military? >> i don't believe so. i don't know. >> he is not. >> would it be fair then to take a person who has never served in the military and to take your reevaluation of their words based on your military experience and your military culture and to attach that culture and the meaning of those words to someone who has never served? >> representative, i made that judgment and i stick by that judgment. >> i have to tell you i think it's nonsense. i was in the military, i could distinguish between an order and a ...

President trump's talking points? >> i would say i provided talking points for the vice president for the april 23rd call which included the discussion of president zelensky's inauguration which president trump had also discussed with president zelensky. i would say vice president discussed other issues as well. >> and was stated earlier, the president sets of foreign policy for the united states, is that right? >> absolutely. you said after the call, you put the call transcript in vice president pence's intelligence briefing book, is that right? >> i ensured it was there. my colleagues prepar...

Eliminated the fact that either marginalized me as a military officer or -- >> listen, i'm just telling you that the ranking member met no disrespect to you. >> i believe that. >> i would like to go back to your previous testimony earlier today. much has been talked about as we've discussed between president trump and president zelensky and the word "favor." and this being interpreted as a basis for impeachment. your interpretation of the word "favor," and i'll paraphrase you, feel free to correct me, you said in the military culture, which you and i are both familiar with, when a superior off...