address the president's concerns. we chose the latter path. in the coming weeks, ambassador sondland got more clearly involved in ukraine policy making with the june 4 u.s. mission to the eu independence day event in brussels one month earlier. secretary perry, brechtel and state department counselor and sondland met with president zelensky whom he invited on the margins of the event. on june 10, 2019, secretary perry organized a conference call with sondland, then national security adviser john bolton, volker and others. it reviewed ukraine strategy with bolton and decided perry, sondland and volker would assist ambassador bill taylor, the new acting ambassador in kyiv and discuss trump's desire for rudy giuliani to be somehow involved. at the end of the call, according to sondland, we all felt very comfortable with the strategy moving forward. two weeks later, on june 27th,