cooper of the department of defense whose testimony undercut the republican talking point that trump could not have used military aid as leverage because the ukranians didn t know about the hold at the time of trump s july 25th call with the ukranian president. on july 25th a member of my staff got a question from the ukraine embassy contact asking what was going on with ukraine security assistance. that e-mail said that the ukranian embassy and house foreign affairs committee are asking about security assistance. okay. next we have lieutenant colonel alexander vindman who was on that call between trump and ukraine president zelensky. i was concerned by the call. what i heard was inappropriate. i want to emphasize to the committee that when i record my concerns on july 10th relating to asondland and to the presidet
were emailing about the assistance, they had questions about the aid on the day of the call, on july 25th. here s what she laid out today. on july 25th a member of my staff got a question from a ukraine embassy contact asking what was going on with ukraine s security assistance. and she was asked in further testimony, steve, about this about this reaction and she made clear, ukrainians when it was her experience when they reached out they had specific questions. and the fact that this happened hours after the call based on the time stamp of the email, steve, what does that tell you about what they likely knew and who may have known it? you know, here in the united states, erica, we might be a bit confused about who fwhu when and whether or not guys like sondland, you know, had direct contact with the president, but i ll tell you one thing, and i visited ukraine a number of