Had already stopped the Trip Planning by that point. And when did that happen . Stopping the Trip Planning . Yeah. On may 13th. Okay. And how did you hear about that . I was called by a colleague in the the Vice President s chief of staffs office and told to stop the Trip Planning. Okay. And as i understand it, it was the assistant to the chief of staff . Thats correct. Okay. And so you didnt hear about it from general kellogg or the chief of staff or the president or the Vice President , you heard about it from mr. Shorts assistant . Thats right. And did you have any knowledge of the reasoning for stopping the trip . I asked my colleague why we should stop Trip Planning and why the Vice President would not be attending, and i was informed that the president had decided the Vice President would not attend the inauguration. Okay. And do you know why the president decided no, she did not have that information. Okay. And ultimately the Vice President went to canada for a usmca event . Tha
designed exclusively to give the right wing media an opening to questioning your loyalties. i want people to understand what that was all about. it s the kind of attack it s the keihne of thing you say when you re defending the indefensible. it s what you say when it s not enough to attack the media, the way the ranking member gave over his opening statement or to attack the democrat, but it s what you stoop to when the indefensibility of your case is when you wear a field of blue above a purple heart. i, sir, thank you for your service and yield back the balance of my time. mr. conaway? i yield my five minutes. speaker of the house nancy pelosi said president trump committed the impeachable offense of bribery evidenced in his july 25th call transcript with president zelensky. in concert with that, multiple
states, right? that is correct. so you never advised the president of ukraine? i helped him get you said the organization of president zelensky, following the visit the members had a debriefing. you were a member but you weren t in that meeting, were you? that s correct. we ll just have a note there that that meeting occurred without you. you do know that this impeachment inquiry is about the president of the united states, don t you? i do. you said you re responsible for coordinating u.s.-ukranian policy? correct. does the secretary of state pompeo report to you? he does not. ambassador volker? he does not. ambassador of ukraine, eu, nato, anyone in europe report to
channels are being used, which is exactly what you would like to have happen. you would like people to have a if you see something, say something philosophy. what they re trying to do is say, the process is the philosophy. when you cannot attack the underlying facts that are being stated, if they have been corroborated not only the rough transcript of the president s phone call himself, the president s own statement and other people, at least over a dozen witnesses, what do you do? you try to go over the way in which the vehicle of information was actually traveling. so what you re seeing here time and again is not only with john talking about the impugning of integrity of one s loyalty, but also the idea, why are you not asking questions about the underlying substance of it? why are you asking the leaking to the media if again the idea of trying to shoot the message as opposed to talking about the underlying complaints. and all of this right now tells us, time and again, we have the s
ms. williams, colonel vindman, i want to thank you for your knowledge and expertise. it s very important as we help our allies and counter those who are not our allies. miss williams, you are responsible, as part of your portfolio, you advised the president of ukraine, correct? correct. ms. williams, you are the adviser to the president on ukraine and you coordinated foreign policy, correct? i probably ease that back. i took that off my job description to have on my eval, but i certainly spent much more time with the president. but your statement as you submitted it today that says, i am the principal adviser to the