Concerning the allegations, i stressed that no one in the new team governing ukraine had anything to do with anything that may have happened in 2016. They were making Television Shows at the time. I also said that it is not credible to me that former Vice President biden would have been influenced in any way by financial or personal motives in carrying out his duties as Vice President. A different issue is whether some individual ukrainians may have attempted to influence the 2016 election or thought they would buy influence. That is at least plausible given ukraines reputation for corruption. But the accusation that Vice President biden acted inappropriately did not seem at all credible to me. After that meeting, i connected mayor giuliani and mr. Yermak by text and later by phone. They met in person on august 2nd, 2019. In conversations with me following that meeting, which i
did not attend, mr. Giuliani said that he had stressed the importance of ukraine conducting investigations in
you and ambassador taylor and sondland and at the top sondland said guys, mult very con voes with z and period potus, period, let s talk. and then ambassador taylor 15, 16 minutes later says, gordon and i just spoke, i can brief you, meaning you, ambassador volker, if you and gordon don t connect. approximately one hour later, ambassador taylor said the nightmare is they gave the interview and don t get the security assistance. the russians love it and i quit. and then at the bottom, about five hours later, how do you respond? i m not in the loop. talk monday. so you were not in the loop in terms of all of the conversations that ambassador taylor, mr. morrison, ambassador sondland were having? yes, that s correct. and now ultimately the hold was lifted on september 11th, is that right ambassador volker. that is my understanding. and mr. morrison, were you aware that prior to september