Does. But his aides and his campaign, the white house, they have been sending out very negative messages about Lieutenant Colonel vindman. They tried to use something morrison said behind closed doors when he said there were people that questioned vindmans judgment at nsc, specifically fiona hill that well hear from thursday. I his Opening Statement, i think he realized how much play that has got. He said he wasnt here to criticize his colleagues. Saw vindman prepared to address it as he was there to testify earlier. He brought a Performance Review from fiona hill, the official, that morrison had the conversation with, where it praised him multiple times and his performance in the job. You see tim morrison and kurt volker, beginning to walk back in. Theyll sit down and the hearing will resume. The next round will be the five minute sessions where all of the members, democrats and
republicans, they have five minutes to ask questions. It will start with the chairman, adam schiff, and dev
ukranian colleague, andres yermak, i don t remember if my staff, someone from the embassy or where, and the readout was it was a good phone call. that it was a congratulatory phone call for the president s win in the parliamentary election, that president trump renewed the invitation for se zelensky to come to the white house. i believe you said a readout was exactly as you expected the call to go, is that right? that s what we were trying to. i want to show you the july 25th text to yermak which was the message you were relaying to him so he could prepare president zelensky, and you ll recall this, right, where you said this was the message, good lunch, thanks. heard from white house, assuming
lift the hold on security assistance. is that your recollection of the conversation as well? not exactly. how does yours differ? i recall talking about the statement that we had discussed earlier, the one that had been the subject of the exchanges between mr. yermak and myself, myself, ambassador sondland, and rudy giuliani, and back to yermak. so i discussed that this is an effort we are doing, that this could be helpful in getting a reset of the thinking of the president, the negative view of ukraine that he had. and if we did that, i thought that would also be helpful in unblocking whatever hold there was on security assistance, if there s a negative presumption about ukraine, getting this stuff on track would be helpful. all right. that s a different interpretation, but you don t doubt what she testified is inaccurate, do you? i believe she accurately reflected what she understood from the conversation. you testified a little about
conversation he had with the president, and he was asked about it. it is the only one he relates. he said he was asked whether or not there was a quid pro quo. he said i didn t frame the question basically to the president that way as a link, i did not frame the question that way. i asked the open ended question what do you want, this is mr. sondland in his testimony asking this question of the president of the united states. this is what he reports of the president of the united states. he said i want nothing. i don t want to give them anything, i don t want anything from them. i want zelensky to do the right thing. that s what he and he kept repeating, no quid pro quo over and over again. mr. morrison, do you have any reason to believe mr. sondland is not telling the truth of the content of his conversation with the president of the united states? no, congressman. do either of you have information or evidence that anyone that testified before the committee in the secret dunge
president z convinces trump he will investigate, quote, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016, we will nail down date for visit to washington. that s what you expected from the call, right? i expected that president zelensky would be convincing in his statements and comments of president trump, that he was exactly that, that he would investigate, git to t investigate, get to the bottom of things in 2016, and that if he was strong in conveying who he is in a person doing that, that president trump would be convinced and renew the invitation to the white house. right. but you don t mention corruption in this text, do you? this is the word corruption is not in this text. the word corruption is not there, investigating things that happened in the past that would be corrupt would be investigating corruption. you say a couple times in opening statement, you said it again, investigating things that happened in the past. you are aware most investigations relate to things tha