possible issues with the flow of assistance, my staff showed me two unclassified emails that they received from the state department. one was received on july 25th at 2:31 p.m. that email said that the ukrainian embassy and house foreign affairs committee are asking about security assistance. the second email was received on july 25th at 4:25 p.m. that email said that the hill knows about the fmf situation to an extent and so does the ukrainian embassy. on july 3rd at 4:23 p.m. they received an email from the state department stating that they had heard that the cn is currently being blocked by omb. this apparently refers to the notification state would send for ukraine fmf. but your staff at least gleaning from those conversations that ukrainian embassy was aware that there was some kind of a hold on the
at the time. i do not have any additional information about precisely what the ukrainians may have said, what may have been their source of information about a hold or any possible issues with the flow of assistance, or with the state department officials may have told them. my staff also advised me the last few days of the following additional fact that may be relevant to this inquiry. again, my staff does not recall informing me about them and i do not recall being made aware of them. on july 3 at 4:23 p.m., they received an email from the state department stating that they had heard that the cn is being blocked by omb. this partly refers to the congressional notification state would send for ukraine fmf. i have no further information. on july 25, member of my staff got a question from a ukraine embassy contact asking what was going on with ukraine security assistance. because at that time, we did not know what the guidance was on
of their content at the time. i do not have any additional information about precisely what the ukrainians may have said, what may have been their source of information about a hold or any possible issues with the flow of assistance or what the state department officials may have told them. my staff also advised me the last few days of the following additional facts that may be relevant to this inquiry. again, my staff does not recall informing me about them and i do not recall being made aware of this. on july 3rd at 4:23 p.m., they received an email from the state department stating that they heard that the cn is currently being blocked by omb. this apparently refers to the congressional notification state would send for ukraine fmf. i have no further information on this. 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. because at that time, we did not