Phoebe with ambassador taylor, was he assesssatisfied that thie was now behindti him . I dont really know, because when i responded, get ahold of the secretary, and he said i agree. I never knew i whether he reach out to the secretaryhe or not. That was sort of the end at one point in the text you said lets get on the phone, you said youre an individual that doesnt like to walk through these issues on texts when you can talk about it on the 1 telephone, correct . I say that to everybody when something becomes more substantive than a few lines of text, i say, lets talk. Did you say that to ambassador taylor . I dont recall. I dont recall whether we spoke after that or whether he called the secretary. Basically, mr. Castor, wanted to get the notion across that ive gone as far as i can go with this, you need to youre the ambassador, you need to pick up the ball and run with it at this point. Okay. Just getting back to the irregular channel, did anyone else express any concerns to you abou
july 25th, there s talk about a drug cocktail or something. no one ever said that to me by phone, by text, by email. i don t remember anybody sounding any alarm bell because of course had someone mentioned it, i would have sat up and taken notice. everyone s hair was on fire but no one decided to talk to us. when you talk in your statement about in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid, i later came to believe, it was your speculation, it was your guess, that the resumption of security aid wouldn tur occur until ther was a public statement from ukraine committing to investigations of 2016. i believe you said at this point you believed everyone, everyone knew this; is that correct? i think once that politico article broke, it started making