about fighting corruption, we should also say specifically, burisma in 2016. mr. yermak provided me a statement. i wanted to be assured that this statement would actually correct the perception that mr. giuliani had of ukraine and what they stand for now so that that would also be conveyed to president trump and solve this problem that i had observed with our may 23rd meeting with the president. the problem being that he is getting a bad set of information, a statement like this could potentially correct that. was mr. guiliani satisfied with the statement? no, he was not. he believed it needed to say burisma and 2016 specifically or else it would not be credible, would not mean anything. so in fact, mr. guiliani wanted a statement that referenced burisma and the 2016 elections explicitly. one that would benefit, essentially, president trump.
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giuliani. mr. giuliani said they thought ukraine should make a statement about fighting corruption and mr. yermac provided me a draft statement and i wanted to be assured that this statement would actually correct the perception that mr. giuliani had of ukraine and what they stand for now so that that would also be conveyed to president trump and solve this problem that i had observed with our may 23rd meeting with the president. the problem being that he s getting bad set of information. a statement like this could potentially correct that. so was mr. giuliani satisfied with this statement? no, he was not. why not? he believed it needed to say burisma and 2016 specifically or else it would not be credible, it would not mean anything. so in fact mr. giuliani wanted a statement that referenced burisma and 2016 elections explicitly. one that would benefit
essentially president trump. mr. ambassador, here s the text you sent to the ukrainian official august 13th. you said hey
ukraine had a statement about fighting corruption and mr. yermak would say burr mace in 2016. mr. yermak provided me a draft statement, and i wanted to be assured that this statement would actually correct the perception that mr. giuliani had of ukraine and what they stand for now so that that would also be conveyed to president trump and solve this problem that i d observed with our may 23rd meeting with the president. the problem that he s getting a bad set of information, statement like this could potentially correct that. so was mr. giuliani satisfied with this statement? no, he was not. why not? he believed that it needed to say burisma and 2016 specifically or else it would not be credible, it would not mean anything new. so, in fact, mr. jewel yagiu wanted it to state burisma and
one specifically for president trump. mr. ambassador, here s the text you sent to the ukrainian official on august 13th, let s put that up on the screen. you said hi, andre. good talking. f
Investigations into burisma and biden and the 2016 crowd strike server and you in that conversation with mr. giuliani basically debunked all of that. now tattoo on at that breakfast, who else was with you at that breakfast? there was someone that mr. giuliani brought along. i later learned that this was lev parnas who we ve learned a lot about since then. so mr. lev parnas was at that breakfast that mr. giuliani had with you, and we now know that mr. parnas has since been indicted for campaign, foreign campaign contributions to president trump s political action committee, is that correct? i ve seen that. all right. on may 23rd you were in that discussion with the president and at one point he referred to
These investigations into burisma and biden and the 2016 crowd strike server. and you in that conversation with mr. giuliani basically debunked all of that. now at that time, at that breakfast, who else was with you at that breakfast? there was someone that mr. giuliani brought along. later learned that we ve learned a lot about him since then. mr. lev parnas was at that breakfast, and we now know that mr. lev parnas has since been indicted for foreign campaign contributions to president trump s political action committee. is that correct? i have seen that. on may 23rd, you were in that discussion with the president, and at one point, he referred to