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president putin that if he were to move into ukraine, that there would be severe consequences including significant economic sanctions as well as i feel obliged to beef up our press, th presence, nato s presence, in the eastern front. but i see watching one of you on television pointed out the fact and i think you ve got it right, i m embarrassed i don t remember who, but saying that this is all putin. i don t even think his people know for certain what he will do. would you ever see yourself personally sanctioning him? yes. you would? i would see that. what would trigger the deflightment of the 8500 troops that you have put on high alert and what is your message to those forces that are on high alert? the forces on high alert are
the july 19th e-mail where you say the subject is i talked to zelensky just now. yes. i ve got it. was there some sort of assurance that president zelensky needed to provide about what he would say to president trump in order just to get the phone call? i think that part was verbal and then there were a lot of communications going around back and forth with the ukrainians. that s when someone, and i don t remember who, came up with the idea of a draft statement so there would be no misunderstanding about what, in fact, the ukrainians would say and would be willing to say that we could rely on and negotiate something on a piece of paper. so just to place you in time, we re going to get to that draft
right? which email again? the july 19th email where you said the subject as i talked to zelensky just now. i got it. was there is some sort of assurance that president zelensky needed to provide about what he would say to president trump in order just to get the phone call? i think that part was for a bowl and were a lot of communications going around back and forth with the ukrainians and that is when someone, and i don t remember who, came up with the idea of a draft statement so there would be no misunderstanding about what in fact the ukrainians would say and would be willing to say that we could rely on and negotiate something on a piece of paper. the place you in time we are going to get to that draft statement which was in august.