stefanik just talk about. and of course he left that out of his 23 page opening stateme statement. [reporter question] that s the white house s ca call. look, this process has been so unfair. what adam schiff has done, the fact that he told us last night, if we wanted to look at mr. sandy s deposition and bring some of that material forward, we found out about that last night at 10:00, our lawyer had notified. we would ve liked his deposition available to use. we could do that. that is one of the many unfair things. you know it has been unfair throughout this entire process. you all know that. [reporter question] now, our witnesses or
come here today. with that, i yelled back, mr. chairman. mr. jordan. i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a statement from mick mulvaney. we haven t seen all the statements but i presume they are accurate and no objections. ambassador, president trump is not a big fan of foreign aid. i don t know that s a fair characterization. i think he s careful. foreign aid going to certain countries. he knew ukraine was corrupt. he believed ukraine was corrupt. he wanted europe to do more. definitely. the president had a belief that ukrainian governmen governt officials supported his opponent in 2016. there was one member of parliament is that the majority of ukrainian politicians want hillary clinton to win. he had that belief as well. obviously he understood what was happening.
television over and over and over again talking about hunter biden and burisma. no, i did not. on september 9, in a text from ambassador taylor, he said something to the effect, are we now saying that aid is tied to investigations and i believe you texted back, call me. then you had a conversation with president trump. president trump said something to the effect that there is no quid pro quo. do you know what prompted him to say that? you asked him what do you want and he goes directly there is no quid pro quo as opposed to going directly to a list of things he wanted. what prompted him to use that term? i have no clue. did you discuss your text from ambassador taylor with president trump before he made that statement? i did not. i asked a very old open-ended question. your member that directly although there are several other
president zelensky. mr. giuliani demanded that ukraine make a public statement announcing investigations of the 2016 election, dnc server, and burisma. mr. giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the united states and we knew that these investigations were important to the president. later, you testified, i tried diligently to ask why the aide was suspended but i never received a clear answer. in the absence of any credible explanation for this suspension of aid, i later came to believe that the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement from ukraine committing to the investigations of the 2016 election and burisma, as mr. giuliani had demanded. i shared concerns of the potential quid pro quo regarding the security aid with
prerequisite of investigations before any white house call or meeting. you further testified again, mr. giuliani s demand that president zelensky make a public statement about investigations, i knew that the topic of investigations was important to president trump. you testified later i know that members of this committee have frequently framed these complicated issues in the form of a simple question. was there a quid pro quo? as i testified previously with regard to the requested white house call and white house meeting, the answer is yes. we understood these prerequisites for the white house call and white house meeting reflected president trump s desires and requirements.