partisanship of this type is not compatible with the role of a career foreign service officer. i have never met hunter biden, nor have i had any direct or any direct conversations with him. and although i have met former vice president biden several times over the course of our many years in government service, neither he nor the previous administration ever raised the issue of either burisma or hunter biden with me. with respect to mayor giuliani, i have had only minimal contact with him a total of three. none related to the events at issue. i do not understand mr. giuliani s motives for attacking me nor can i offer an opinion on whether he believed the allegations he spread about me. clearly no one at the state department did. what i can say is that mr. giuliani should have known those claims were suspect coming as they reportedly did
building up her credibility and also making it clear she felt that she was sort of being attacked and undermind by rudy giuliani and other forces turning against here what she said was unstub stanchioniateed claim she had put together a do not prosecute list and badmouthed the president. she claims both of those things are not true. there is some suggestions the word list is what is not very accurate here. but that the sentiment behind the idea there were people they didn t want prosecuted may bear out and we ll see what the republican line of questioning does to establish any of that, if it s there. what we expect is republicans to go after the campaign of 2016. what role ukraine played in that and also i would expect questions about hunter biden as his involvement on the board of burisma. what did he do and get for it. before it happens chris wallace your analysis on what you have heard thus far. i think that if you are not moved and we ll have to wait
referenced in your opening statement including that you had badmouthed the president and had given the prosecutor general a do not prosecute list. there was another that included allegations of ukrainian interference in the 2016 election, and then there was a third that related to allegations concerning burisma and the bidens. is that accurate? yeah, yes. were these articles and allegations then promoted by others associated with the president in the united states? they seemed to be promoted by those around mayor giuliani. i m going to show you a couple of exhibits including a tweet here by president trump himself on march 20th which was the first day that one of these articles was published. it appears to be a quote that
the smear campaign also included allegations related to ukraine s interference in the 2016 election and the burisma/biden connection, is that right? yes. so i m going to end my questioning where we were before which was the july 25th call. president trump not only insults you and praises the corrupt prosecutor general but he also as you know by now references these two investigations. first, immediately after president zelensky thanks president trump for his quote great support in the area of defense, unquote, president trump responds i would like you to do us a favor, though. because our country has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it. i would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with ukraine. they say crowd strike. i guess you have one of your
of ukraine s election meddling against the trump campaign? and third, why did burisma hire hunter biden, what did he do for them and did his position affect any government actions under the obama administration? i ll note house democrats vowed they would not put the american people through a wrenching impeachment process without bipartisan support. and they have not. add that to their ever growing list of broken promises and destruction deceptions. in closing, mr. chair, the president of the united states released his transcript right before the hearing began. i think it s important that i read this into the record so there is no confusion over this first phone call that occurred on april 21st with president elect zelensky.