Giuliani. Mr. Giuliani said they thought ukraine should make a statement about Fighting Corruption and mr. Yermac provided me a draft statement and i wanted to be assured that this statement would actually correct the perception that mr. Giuliani had of ukraine and what they stand for now so that that would also be conveyed to President Trump and solve this problem that i had observed with our may 23rd meeting with the president. The problem being that hes getting bad set of information. A Statement Like this could potentially correct that. So was mr. Giuliani satisfied with this statement . No, he was not. Why not . He believed it needed to say burisma and 2016 specifically or else it would not be credible, it would not mean anything. So in fact mr. Giuliani wanted a statement that Referenced Burisma and 2016 elections explicitly. One that would benefit
essentially President Trump. Mr. Ambassador, heres the text you sent to the ukrainian official august 13th. You said hey andrey good
Were not going to issue that statement that Rudy Giuliani wanted to include burisma in the 2016 elections, there was no white house meeting. Soon became clear to them that the Security Assistance was also at risk and that took on a renewed importance for them. Following the July 25th Call, it had to include that they would do the investigations of burisma which equaled the Biden Investigation into the ukraine interference. Was their concern about doing
the investigations or what . Where they supposed to make a statement about it . Ambassador sondland very clearly testified that all he ever heard mr. Giuliani or anyone say is that they only needed the public announcement of the investigation. Without that Public Statement that there would be no white house meeting. Yes. I was struck by how clear the evidence seems to be on this point and id like to play another example. Was they were a quid pro quo . As i testified previously with regard to the requested white house call, the answer is
Nfc. Is he the person that put it in the server . He testified to it. You have to ask him. Id love to do this. We would love to have these witnesses love to have the server . Id love to have the witnesses. We have people running around ukraine looking for a server under some cloud strike notion. We have 67 of the officials bribing officials as well. Thats theres no credible witness that said theres anything in the transcript that was not there. None of your witnesses i find the president goes out, issues this unclassified statement and theres a statement out there somewhere in a classified server that may have gotten there mistakingly according to mr. Morrison as youre testifying, but my question ultimately would be why is it there . Why hasnt it been retrieved and why have you all not received it. I digress. Let me go on and finish up with
this unclassified mr. Hastings, theres an implication here and id like a clarification. Are you implying theres another transcript out there . Im i
Other important things that are going undone. Within this committees own jurisdiction we should be addressed in the opioid epidemic. We could be working together to find a solution to our immigration and asylum challenges on our southern border. We could be protecting americans for having their intellectual property and jobs stolen by Chinese Companies and we could be enhancing Election Security just to name a few things. Congress as a whole could be working on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. Providing additional tax relief to the nations middle class families and providing additional security to our people here at home and abroad. Instead, here we are spinning our wheels once again on impeachment. What a waste. The American People deserve so much better. I yield back. The Gentleman Yield back. Thank you, mr. Chair. I take no pleasure in the fact that we are here today. As a patriot who loves america,
it pains me that the circumstances forced us to undertake this grave and sol
Ahead and have your vote because he wants to get back to the business of the American People. A lot of good Talking Points with the economy and stock market so i think hes going to say im the president and focused on the business at hand and focused on something he believes is unimportant in the end. The event that he is doing today is on School Choice and a big issue for the republican party, hes got some results there and we have the president now talking about the horowitz report, we have that tape for you right here. President trump thank you very much. The ig report just came out and i was just briefed on it and its a disgrace what has happened with respect to the things that were done to our country. Should never again happen to another president. It is incredible, far worse than i wouldve ever thought
possible, and that is an embarrassment to our country, it is dishonest. It is everything that a lot of people thought it would be except far worse. So im going to get some very det