Phoebe with ambassador taylor, was he assesssatisfied that thie was now behindti him . I dont really know, because when i responded, get ahold of the secretary, and he said i agree. I never knew i whether he reach out to the secretaryhe or not. That was sort of the end at one point in the text you said lets get on the phone, you said youre an individual that doesnt like to walk through these issues on texts when you can talk about it on the 1 telephone, correct . I say that to everybody when something becomes more substantive than a few lines of text, i say, lets talk. Did you say that to ambassador taylor . I dont recall. I dont recall whether we spoke after that or whether he called the secretary. Basically, mr. Castor, wanted to get the notion across that ive gone as far as i can go with this, you need to youre the ambassador, you need to pick up the ball and run with it at this point. Okay. Just getting back to the irregular channel, did anyone else express any concerns to you abou
to the white house meeting. and lisa kenna responds, gord gordon, i ll pass to s. and s is secretary pompeo? correct. thank you, lisa. now, two days later, you have a text exchange with ambassador volker again. and this is at the end of it. but the earlier text which we don t have here, you may recall, includes the press statement, the revised press statement that includes burisma and the 2016 election. do you recall that? yes, if i could see it, that would be helpful. but yes. so, but you ultimately remembered that after your conversation with mr. giuliani, you did pass. along a statemen to the ukrainians that included burisma and the 2016 election, is that right? i think there were statements being passed back and forth between volker, the ukrainians,
and others to try and negotiate acceptable language. and ultimately the statement was not issued, was it? correct. and the white house meeting did not still hasn t occurred. still hasn t occurred. but you certainly understood at that time, did you not, that it was the president s direction and instruction that a white house meeting with president zelensky would not occur until president zelensky announced publicly the investigations that the president wanted, is that right? that s correct. and you now know the investigations the president wanted was an investigation into the bidens w and an investigati intond the 2016 election? i know that now, yes. i m going to move ahead to august 22nd. and you wrote an email to secretary pompeo, directly to secretary pompeo, cc ing lisa