investigate that? did ambassador volker ever relate that to you? no. we just talked in generic terms about quote investigating burisma. but it had nothing to do with vice president wide season. i never heard vice president biden come up until very late in the game. when? i don t recall the exact date. but when it all sort of came together, maybe after the transcript of the july 25th call. i don t know. i don t know the exact date when i made the connection. okay. apparently, a lot of people did not make the connection. okay. i want to turn to the letter from senator johnson. he when these issues on the hold of the aid, he called the president. he called the president on august 31st, page 6 of his letter. senator johnson states or he writes, i asked him, the president, whether there is some kind of arrangement where ukraine would take some action and the hold would be lifted.
lifted on september 11th, correct? i believe that s correct. okay. senator johnson in his letter on page 6 quotes the president on august 31st. ron, i understand your position. we re reviewing it now and you re probably like my final decision. so even on august 31st and this is before any congressional investigations started. the president was signaling to senator johnson that he was going to lift the aid? sounds like it, yeah. okay. and most of the other witnesses we talked to, whether it s from the department of defense or omb or, you know, they have told us that all along during this 55-day period they genuinely believed the hold would be lifted. was that your feeling too at the time? i didn t know because every time i asked about the hold i was never given a straight
the prosecutor general with the new administration ought to investigate that. did ambassador volker ever relate that to you? no. we just talked in generic terms about quote investigating burisma. but had nothing to do with vice president biden? i had never vice president biden come up until late in the game. when? maybe after the transcript of the july 25th call. i don t know. i don t know the exact date when i made the connection. okay. apparently a lot of people did not make the connection. okay. i want to turn to the letter from senator johnson. he when he heard about some of the issues in the aid, he called the president. he called the president on august 31st, page 6 of his letter. senator johnson states or he writes, i asked him, the president, whether there was some kind of arrangement where
the high-level-ranking motorcycle gang member for a hit. reporter: the gang member denied any involvement, and investigators consider the matter closed. they say gliniewicz feared marrin was going to expose his seven-year looting of the youth police explorer program he ran. on august 31st, gliniewicz texted, she has now demanded a complete inventory of explorer central in a financial report. the next morning, marrin said gliniewicz e-mailed her, promising to provide information by 1:00 p.m. instead, at 8:09 a.m., fellow officers found him dead in what investigators now say was a carefully staged suicide. send everybody you possibly can. officer is down. reporter: this morning, the investigation deepens into a case some say has turned a hero cop into a village villain. investigators say there are so many victims in this case, but it turns out that one of them
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