To investigate what happened in the past and apply its own laws. No one in the new team had anything to do with anything that may have happened in 2016. They were making Television Shows at the time. Iral i also said it is credible to me that he would have been influenced by financial or personal motives in carrying out duties as Vice President. A different issue is whether some individual ukrainians may have attempted to influence the 2016 election or thought they could buy influence. That is at least plausible given ukraines reputation for corruption. The accusation that he acted independently did not seem credible to me. I connected mayor giuliani and the aide by text lantand later t i phone. They met in person on august 2, 2019. In conversations with me following that meeting which i did not attend, mr. Giuliani said that he had stressed the importance of ukraine conducting investigations into what happened in the past and mr. Yermoc stressed, he said it is their position to conduc
Concerning the allegations, i stressed that no one in the new team governing ukraine had anything to do with anything that may have happened in 2016. They were making Television Shows at the time. I also said that it is not credible to me that former Vice President biden would have been influenced in any way by financial or personal motives in carrying out his duties as Vice President. A different issue is whether some individual ukrainians may have attempted to influence the 2016 election or thought they would buy influence. That is at least plausible given ukraines reputation for corruption. But the accusation that Vice President biden acted inappropriately did not seem at all credible to me. After that meeting, i connected mayor giuliani and mr. Yermak by text and later by phone. They met in person on august 2nd, 2019. In conversations with me following that meeting, which i
did not attend, mr. Giuliani said that he had stressed the importance of ukraine conducting investigations in
involved in this parallel process? as i recall, it was definitely ambassador sondland and i believe mr. giuliani. and after she informed you of this company burisma, what, if anything, did you do to determine what that was? after that particular handoff meeting, i proceeded to look it up on the internet. i googled it. did you find it had some association with hunter biden? yes. now ambassador volker you did not listen to this call but you testified you were surprised and troubled when you read the call record after it was released on september 25th and also said that after reading the call record it was clear to you that the biden, burisma and 2016 election investigations that president trump discussed on the call were designed to serve the president s political interests, not the national interest. what did you mean when you said
who she call in the process? sondland and mr. giuliani. what did do you if anything to determine what that was? after that particular handoff meeting, i proceeded to look it up on the internet. i googled it. did you find that it had some association with hunter bide snen. yes. did you dmot listen to this call but you testified you were surprised and troubled when you read the call record after it was released on september 25th. you also said that after reading the call record, it was clear to you that the biden-burisma and 2016 election investigation that s president trump discussed on the call were designed to serve the president s political interests not the national
to be suggestive of what might flavor your testimony? sir, he s been saying that to me for many, many months and at the end of the day i knew exactly when he wanted me to say. and why was mr. sekulow in the meeting? because he was going to be representing mr. trump going forward as one of his personal attorneys in this manner. sort of a handoff meeting? correct. in any way, final question. did the president in any way from your point of view coach you in terms of how to respond to questions or the content of your testimony before the house committee? again, it s difficult to answer because he doesn t tell you what he wants. what he does is, again, michael there s no russia. there s no collusion. there s no involvement. there s no interference. i know what he means because i ve been around him for so long. so if you re asking me whether