Phoebe with ambassador taylor, was he assesssatisfied that thie was now behindti him . I dont really know, because when i responded, get ahold of the secretary, and he said i agree. I never knew i whether he reach out to the secretaryhe or not. That was sort of the end at one point in the text you said lets get on the phone, you said youre an individual that doesnt like to walk through these issues on texts when you can talk about it on the 1 telephone, correct . I say that to everybody when something becomes more substantive than a few lines of text, i say, lets talk. Did you say that to ambassador taylor . I dont recall. I dont recall whether we spoke after that or whether he called the secretary. Basically, mr. Castor, wanted to get the notion across that ive gone as far as i can go with this, you need to youre the ambassador, you need to pick up the ball and run with it at this point. Okay. Just getting back to the irregular channel, did anyone else express any concerns to you abou
Now behind him . I dont really know. He responded when i said get ahold of the secretary, he said i agree and i never knew whether he reached out to the secretary or not. That was sort of the end of that. At one point in your text you said lets get on the phone and you said you are an individual that doesnt like to walk through these issues on texts when you can talk about it on the telephone, correct . I say talk it on the telephone correct . I say that to everybody when something becomes more substantive and that then a few lines of text. The speaker did you talk with ambassador taylor . I dont recall whether we spoke after that or he called the secretary. Basically mr. Castor wanted to get the notion across that i had gone as far as i can go with this. You are the ambassador and you need to pick up the ball and run with it at this point. Okay. Just getting back to the regular channel, did anyone else expressed concerns to you about this socalled irregular
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are you able to see that on your? i m able to see that. what is the subject of that email? ukraine. can you read what you wrote there? mike, and i am referring to secretary pompeo. the contents will hopefully make the boss happy enough to authorize an invitation. zelensky plans to have a big presser on the openness subject including specifics next week. in your opening statement you said the specifics, what are the specifics representing? the 2016 and the burisma. and when you say the boss who do you mean by that? president trump. the invitation is what?
there is talk about a drug cocktail or something. nobody ever said that to me. by phone, text, or email. i don t remember anybody sounding any alarm bell because of course had somebody mentioned it i would have sat up and taken notice. everyone s hair was unfired but nobody decided to talk to us. when you talk in your statement about in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of a dilator came to believe it was your guess that the presumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement from ukraine confirming the investigations into 2016. i believe at this point you said you believed everyone knew this, is that correct? i think once that political article broke it started making the rounds that if you
that in response to a ukrainian official i in the july 10th meeting about scheduling a white house visit that you said i spoke with mr. mulvaney and it will be scheduled after they announced these investigations. do you have any reason to dispute that characterization? i don t have any reason to agree or dispute, i just don t remember. they just remembered and they both went does speak to the nsc legal advisor about it you would trust that whatever they relate to the nsc legal advisor would likely be an accurate reflection? i trust that they related to the nsc legal advisor, i don t remember whether i set it and i don t know which conversation i can i ve had very limited conversations with mr. mulvaney. this email indicates that you spoke to president zelensky and were relaying what he said a very senior officials, is that