To investigate what happened in the past and apply its own laws. No one in the new team had anything to do with anything that may have happened in 2016. They were making Television Shows at the time. Iral i also said it is credible to me that he would have been influenced by financial or personal motives in carrying out duties as Vice President. A different issue is whether some individual ukrainians may have attempted to influence the 2016 election or thought they could buy influence. That is at least plausible given ukraines reputation for corruption. The accusation that he acted independently did not seem credible to me. I connected mayor giuliani and the aide by text lantand later t i phone. They met in person on august 2, 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 into what happened in the past and mr. Yermoc stressed, he said it is their position to conduc
room. in your deposition, you testified that call was not what you were hoping to hear. what did you fwhin? i was hoping for a more full throated statement of support from the president concerning president zelenskyy s reform agenda given where we were at the time with respect to the overwhelming mandate president zelenskyy servant of the party people had received in the election. and that election, the ukrainian parliament that, election occurred four days earlier? that s right. and president zelenskyy s party fwhon a land side, is that right? they received more than a majority in their own right. at least in ukraine there was tremendous support for zelenskyy s anti-corruption agenda, is that right? at the time. and within the interagency, within the national security agencies here in the united states, was there broad support for president zelenskyy?