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
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
ukraine chairman alex den illuck and the meeting was over when sondland made a comment about investigations. i think all of us thought it was inappropriate. the conversation did not continue and the meeting concluded. later on in the room i may have been engaged in a side conversation or already left the complex because i do not recall further discussion regarding investigations of burisma. third, i did not understand that others believed that any investigation of the ukrainian company burisma which had a history of accusations of corruption was tant amount to investigating biden. it has long been u.s. policy under multiple administrations to urge ukraine to fight internal corruption. i was quite comfortable with ukraine making its own statement about its own policy of investigating and fighting corruption at home. at the one in-person meeting i
meeting between national security adviser bolton and then ukrainian chairman of the national security council. as i remember, the meeting was essential i had over when ambassador sondland made a comment about investigations. i think we all thought it was inappropriate. the meeting concluded. later on in the war room, i may have been engaged in side conversation or had already left the complex because i did not recall further discussion regarding investigations of burisma. third, i did not understand that others believed that any investigation of ukrainian company burisma which had a history of accusations of corruption was tan amount to investigating vice president biden. as long been u.s. policy under multiple administrations to urge ukraine to investigate and fight internal corruption. i was quite comfortable with ukraine making its own statement about its own policy of investigating and fighting