May, i believe you testified it was one of the largest delegations . I believe it was. I cant be 100 sure but i believe it was the Largest National delegation. Okay. And included in the delegation was Secretary Perry. Secretary perry, ambassador sondland, myself and senator ron johnson was there and the target defair joe pennington. And we talked a little bit this morning but the president Zelensky Inauguration came together rather quickly. It did. I believe we had about three days notice in which to put the delegation together. And there is discussion about whether the Vice President would 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 deposition that aid does, in fact, get held up from time to time for
that by itself is just a horrible thing and turn it into something beautiful, something that can be inspiring . that s what a martyr is. that s right. t and we yeah, weuc imbue exactly as we do all of this . here s a tweet from this morning, february 2014 maydan march 4th 14 carryovers ukraine a billion dollars marche 14 . biden gets ukraine portfolio april 14thit. kevin archer, his business partner with kerry s stepson kerry s top fundraiser visits joe in white house april when he first joe visits ukraine april twenty second archer gets burismaa deal may 14th hunter gets burisma deal in a three way and i that yeah you would think so wouldn t a thing by putting that chronology together there was a follow upnt tweet and that was sort of the point of it, which is that nobody even bothers arguing this isn t corrupt. they know it s corrupt t t and e just don t care. they allied themselves with the
many seem to suggest it does. it doesn t mean everything and anything, it doesn t necessarily mean this. what does it mean. there are four criteria. we know what treason means because it s defined in the constitution. bribery, we know it when we see it. when you pay a government official corruptly to perform an illegal act or an act that is motivated by money, but it can t operate when you are the president of the united states and your conditioning or withholding money in order to make sure that a country isn t corrupt and you re asking them to investigate. that just doesn t fit any definition of bribery. common-law, statutory, however you define the constitution, it just doesn t fit. what they are trying to do is what the kgb, what they said to
it doesn t mean everything and anything, it doesn t necessarily mean this. what does it mean. there are four criteria. we know what treason means because it s defined in the constitution. bribery, we know it when we see it. when you pay a government official corruptly to perform an illegal act or an act that is motivated by money, but it can t operate when you are the president of the united states and your conditioning or withholding money in order to make sure that a country isn t corrupt and you re asking them to investigate. that just doesn t fit any definition of bribery. common-law, statutory, however you define the constitution, it just doesn t fit. what they are trying to do is what the kgb, what they said to stalin the dictator, i m not
october 3rd, he was asked was there any discussion, this is in the july 10th meeting prior to the phone call about any investigations, particularly giuliani s activities in ukraine, et cetera, he said no definitively in his opening statement today he to correct ala gordon sondland to say i remember the meeting was essentially over when ambassador sondland made a general comment about investigations and he said all of us thought that it was n inappropriate and that is the universal true of all of the witnesses, whether more frently to the democrats or the republicans and that is a problem. but the oath thi the other did grow oun comfortable with rudy giuliani s role and introduced him to a top aide to the president by hoped by doing so that would convince giuliani that this government isn t corrupt and not out to get the president but giuliani used that to push the top aide to the