Zelenskys inauguration in may, i believe you testified it was one of the largest delegations . I believe it was. I cant be 100 sure. I believe it was the Largest National delegation. Okay. And included in the delegation was Secretary Perry . Secretary perry, ambassador sondland, myself, senator ron johnson was there and also the charge daffaires at the u. S. Embassy at the time, joe pennington. We talked a little bit this morning, but president zelenskys inauguration came together rather quickly . It did. I believe we had about three days notice in which to put the delegation together. Theres been some discussion whether the Vice President was going to be able to lead that effort and as it turned out he was not able to lead it. Do you have any information as to why the Vice President was unable to join . I dont. And mr. Morrison, do you have any information as to why the
Vice President was unable to participate in the delegation . No. Ambassador volker, you testified during your deposi
and a couple of weeks later, the july 25th call happened. and you were headed to ukraine during that time period? yes. i was actually already on my way to ukraine. i think two days prior to that. and you received readouts from the u.s. side and the ukrainian side. cue te could you tell us about that? yes. i was not on the phone call. i arrived in ukraine and had that lunch with mr. yermak, you saw that, on the day of the phone call. i had been pushing for the phone call because i thought it was important to renew the connection between the two leaders and congratulating mr. zelensky about the parliamentary election. the readout i received from mr. yermak and also from the u.s. side, i m not sure who it was from the u.s. side but it was a u.s. and ukrainian readout, were largely the same, that it was a good call, it was a congratulatory phone call for the president winning in the