26. What did that come to mean . My understanding, ambassador sondlands use of that term was the three people in charge of ukraine policy during the summer where he, gordon sondland, ambassador volker and secretary perry. What did you come to, when did you come to learn about mr. Giulianis role and what do you consider his role to have been . I first heard about former mayor giulianis interest in ukraine in january of this year, that was a different phase than what happened during the summertime. Was it normal to have a person who is a privat citizen take an active role in foreign diplomacy . I did not find his particular engagement normal, no. Now, Ambassador Taylor, you testified that there are two channels, a regular and irregular. What did you see as Rudy Giulianis role in ukraine policy . Congresswoman, i came to see
that mr. Giuliani had a large influence on the irregular channel. And was that normal . Is that normal to have a private citizen of the United States take an active r
thank you, mr. chairman. thank you both for your true heroic efforts, both today and also throughout your careers. i d like to start with you, mr. kent. in your testimony you said that you had a mid-august it became clear to me that giuliani s efforts to gin up politically motivated investigations were now infecting u.s. engagement with ukraine. ledge raving president zelensky s desire for a white house meeting. mr. kent, did you actually write a memo documenting your concerns that there was an effort under way to pressure ukraine to open an investigation to benefit president trump? yes, ma am. i wrote a memo to the file on august 16 bth. we don t have access to that? do we? i submitted it to the state department subject to the september 27th subpoena. we have not received one