Been. As well as others both in president bush and as administration as well as in others lenski administration has been a good partner to the United States as i think i told you before hes a very practical man and looking for partners and getting the job done im shocked that social media would be the site of negative comments on. The. You certainly can understand that. The president aware of minister of archives you know statements aware of what mr le shankar was up to with ambassador charlie was our view. And these other elements that weve discussed that there certainly forms a reasonable basis to wonder whether there are influential. You know elements of the ukrainian establishment that were out to get the president. I you know again i mean i cant speak for what President Trump thought or what others thought i would just say that those elements that youve are cited dont seem to me to be the ukrainian you know kind of a plan or a plot of the Ukrainian Government to work against. Pres
That quote the temple of social media and other criticisms were such that she felt she could no longer function unless there was a strong statement of defense of her from the debate state department. Is that correct correct and this message and secretary pompei i was aware of her situation is that correct yes i briefed him the next day and hes the ultimate authority who could issue that strong statement of support correct correct. But he never ever did issue a statement right we did not issue a statement at the time but in fact you insight you testified around the same time that the secretary did not render assistance to a long serving and highly respected him bassett or he made 2 phone calls to Rudy Giuliani is that right. Its correct that he has seen a record that he made those phone calls one on march 28th and again the next day on march 29. Saw the record of the yes right so we dont know what he said to Rudy Giuliani we have a pretty good idea what really Rudy Giuliani said to him