questions at the meetings that they had with the high ranking u.s. officials through july and august. there were meetings on july 9, july 10, july 25 call and july 26, and august 27, and at none of those meetings was the pause on aid revealed or inquired about. however, as soon as the politico article came out on august 28th, within hours of that politico article coming out, mr. yermak texted the article to ambassador bolton and asked to speak to him. that is consistent with somebody finding out about it for the first time. the ukrainians have also made statements that they learned about it the first time and mr. philbin referenced an article that came out yesterday in the
presentations of the case that quote president zelensky and other senior ukrainian officials did not even know that the security assistance had been pause, end quote, before seeing the press reports on august 28th, 2019, which is more than a month after the july 25 phone call between presidents zelensky and trump? thank you, chief justice and senators for the question. the answer is no. the evidence does not show that. we know that the defense department official laura cooper testified that her staff received two emails from the state department on july 25th, and reviewing that the ukrainian embassy was asking about ukrainian assistance and the counsel for the president brought up the emails just now,
questions at any of the meetings they had with the high ranking u.s. officials through july and august. there were meetings july 9, 10, july 25 call, july 26 and august 27. at none of those meetings was the pause on aid revealed or inquired about. however, as soon as the kwe politico article came out, within hours of the article coming out,plug urmac and that s consistent with someone finding out for the first time. the ukrainians have made statements they learned about it for the first time and m mr. philbin referenced an article that came out yesterday
presentations of its case that, quote, president zelensky and other senior ukrainian officials did not even know that the security assistance had been paused, end quote, before seeing press reports on august 28, 2019, which is more than a month after the july 25 phone call between president s zelensky and trump? thank you, chief justice and senators for the question. the answer is no. the evidence does not show that. we know that defense department official, laura cooper, testified her staff received two emails from the state department july 25th, revealing the ukrainian embassy was, quote, asking about ukrainian assistance and counsel brought up these emails right now.
sekulow briefly, the evidence shows president trump did not condition anything on the call with zielinski and did not even mention the paused security on the call, and president zielinski and the top ukrainian officials did not learn of the pause on the security assistance until more than a month after the july 25 call. and the house manager s own record, their record they developed and brought to the chamber reflects that anybody that spoke with the president made clear there was no linkage between the security assistance and investigations. there s another category of evidence. demonstrating the pause on security assistance was distinct and unrelated to investigations. the president released the aid