rush schaabsian aggression. what you learned is there was a side bar and it appears ambassador sondland was involved. i don t know everything about that, sir. you don t. but as you have been involved and with the benefit of hindsight, while you were working on what you thought was ending corruption there was side deals, correct? yes. so my objective was squarely focused on support for ukraine. i ve learned about the testimony about investigating biden and other conversations that i did not know about. right. thank you for that and thank you for your candor about vice president biden s indid he go grit at this and service.
also on july 20th, i had a phone conversation with alexander done lop, president zelensky s national security adviser who emphasized that president zelensky did not want to be used as an instrument in a u.s. re-election campaign. the next day i texted both ambassadors volker and sondland about president zelensky s concern. on july 25th, president trump and president zelensky had the long-awaited phone conversation. even though i was acting ambassador and was scheduled to meet the following day, i received no readout of the call from the white house t. ukrainian government issued a short, cryptic summary. during a previously planned july 26th meeting, president zelensky told ambassador volker and me that he was happy with the call but ndid not lap rate. president zelensky asked about the face-to-face meeting in the