were remarkably uninformed about these indications of ukrainian election meddling and why the president may have been concerned by them. for example, i noted previously alexander that lupe, a staffer for the democratic national committee admitted to political that she worked with officials for the ukrainian embassy in washington, d.c. to dig up dirt on the trump campaign which she passed onto the dnc and the hillary clinton campaign chalupa revealed ukrainian officials themselves were also working directly with reporters to trade information and leads about the trump campaign. ambassador kent, you didn t seem to be too concerned about that in the last round of questioning so i will just skip you because we know that wasn t a concern. but, ambassador taylor, you testified to this committee that you only recently became aware of reports of this cooperation between ukrainian embassy officials and chalupa to undermine the