yovanovitch. following mr. lutsenko s allegations, mr. giuliani and othered made a ns made a series statements calling for yovanovitch s removal from office. mr. giuliani was making frequent public statements pushing for ukraine to investigate interference in the 2016 election and issues related to burisma and the bidens. for example, on may 1st, 2019, the new york times reported that mr. giuliani had, quote, discussed the burisma investigation and its intersection with the bidens with the ousted ukrainian prosecutor general and the current prosecutor. on may 9th, the new york times reported that mr. giuliani said he planned to travel to ukraine to pursue investigations into the 2016 election interference and into the involvement of former vice president biden s son in a ukrainian gas company. over the next few months, mr. giuliani also issued a series of tweets asking, quote, why biden shouldn t be investigated,
began and found as part of the probe being done by michael horowitz, the inspector general for the justice department. what he found was there was an employee at the fbi who altered a document that was used in the preparation for one of the fisa warrants, surveillance warrants that was done against carter page, the trump campaign aide. this document, whatever changes were made was substantive enough to change the meaning of the document. we don t know a lot more about it. we don t know without this change if fisa would have been approved or not but it is a substantial change made to this document. michael horowitz confronted this fbi employee during one of the interviews done as part of this review and that person admitted to making that change. now, this is part of a criminal investigation being done by john durham, the prosecutor in connecticut who was appointed by bill barr, the attorney general, to do a wide ranging review of
everything used, all the intelligence gathered to begin what became the mueller investigation. this is an altered document and a lot we don t know about this employee and what the motivations were. it is a big deal to make a change to a document, alter it in any way. fbi agents under investigation. clearly, this will reverberate and provide ammunition to the president and his allies this whole russia investigation was criminally wrong. exactly. this is exactly what people close to the president have been saying, the fbi committed wrongdoing in starting this investigation. the question now obviously is what are the details are going to be part of the horowitz report released on december 9th and how much political hey the president s allies will make of it. let me bring in preev.
parliamentary election. contrary to standard procedure the embassy received no read-out of that call and i was unaware what was discussed until the transcript was released on september 25th. upon reading the transcript, i was deeply disappointed to see that the president raised none of what i understood to be our interagency agreed upon foreign policy priorities in ukraine and instead raised the biden/burisma investigation and referred to the theory of crowd strike and its supposed connection to ukraine in the 2016 election. the next day july 26, 2019 i attended meetings with the presidential administration building in kiev with ambassador taylor, volker and sondland and i took notes during those meetings. our first meeting was with president zelensky s chief of staff. it was brief as he had already been summoned by president zelensky to prepare for a subsequent broader meeting. he did say that president trump had expressed interest during the previous day s phone call
yovanovitch. following mr. lutsenko s allegations mr. giuliani and others made a number of public statements critical of ambassador yovanovitch questioning her integrity and calling for her removal from office. mr. giuliani was also making frequent public statements pushing for ukraine to investigate interference in the 2016 election and issues related to burisma and the bidens. for example, on may 1, 2019 the new york times reported that mr. giuliani had quote discussed the burisma investigation and its intersection with the bidens with the ousted ukrainian prosecutor general and current prosecutor. may 9th the new york times reported mr. giuliani said he planned to travel to ukraine to pursue investigations into the 2016 election interference and into the involvement of former vice president biden s son in a ukrainian gas company. over the next few months mr. giuliani also issued a series of tweets asking quote why biden shouldn t be investigated, attacking quote