that there was any review or any investigation of any sort related to the ukraine aid. >> and isn't it also true that the defense department actually determined not to conduct a review on ukraine after the president froze the military aid because ukraine had already met all of the corruption benchmarks in may of 2019? >> yes. and everyone involved in ukrainian policy believed that they were on the right path and president zelensky in particular. >> in addition to ukraine having satisfied all of the relevant corruption assessments prior to u.s. military aid being withheld, there is significant witness testimony that both the state department and the ukrainian embassy actually advised that a white house meeting with president zelensky would help further an anti-corruption agenda, correct. >> both the anti-corruption agenda and the aggression fighting -- fighting at gression from russia. >> and, in fact, president trump's budget actually cut funding for fighting corruption