They were not going to issue that statement that Rudy Giuliani wanted to include burisma and the 2016 elections there was no white house meeting. It soon became clear to them that the Security Assistance was also at risk and that took on a renewed importance for them. Well, following the 25th call, the July 25th Call, ambassador sondland and volker worked closely with mr. Giuliani and the ukrainians to help draft a statement that the president could make, president zelensky. Wasnt that right . Yes. And the report say they were closely and then also there were phone calls with the white house around the same time they were working closely do you know what that statement was supposed to say, according to mr. Giuliani and the u. S. Officials. The key difference is that it had to include that ukraine would do the investigations of burisma which equaled the Biden Investigation and the 2016
ukraine interference. Was there concern about doing the investigations or what . Just make a statement
rule of law and how to impeach an american president and this is not how we re supposed to run a country. it can t be. 17 out of 24 of our colleagues over there already voted to proceed with impeachment before we started all of this. they ve already made up their minds. they were prejudice before we walked in but the american people are are not. fairness still matters. truth matters and the people can see clearly that this is a smam. ip yield back. the gentleman yields back. mr. swalwell. mr. goldman, would you welcome the problem of having 8,000 documents given to you by the white house. it would be a wonderful problem to have. how many have they given you? zero. mr. castor, they said earlier, this got the aid. they got the aid. no harm no foul, they got the aid but you would agree although mr. sandy said that the presidential concern was european contributions, nothing changed from when that concern was expressed to when they actually got the aid, right? you agree on that