Zelenskys inauguration in may, i believe you testified it was one of the largest delegations . I believe it was. I cant be 100 sure. I believe it was the Largest National delegation. Okay. And included in the delegation was Secretary Perry . Secretary perry, ambassador sondland, myself, senator ron johnson was there and also the charge daffaires at the u. S. Embassy at the time, joe pennington. We talked a little bit this morning, but president zelenskys inauguration came together rather quickly . It did. I believe we had about three days notice in which to put the delegation together. Theres been some discussion whether the Vice President was going to be able to lead that effort and as it turned out he was not able to lead it. Do you have any information as to why the Vice President was unable to join . I dont. And mr. Morrison, do you have any information as to why the
Vice President was unable to participate in the delegation . No. Ambassador volker, you testified during your deposi
he is trying to thread the needle, get by in this hearing without saying anything that s demonstrably untrue or anything that s wildly unbelievable, but while still sort of going down this center lane and trying to, as you said, shave off some of the rough edges. i think he did that by acknowledging there was this linka linkage. there were still some rough edges. you don t change your statement to help donald trump. you change your statement to help yourself. we re watching these hearings so long, we re sounding a little washington. i m going to step away and not sound washington. the needle 24rthreading is abou how much bull you can serve up without offending everyone. you re putting your finger on the question, nicolle, how do people expect us to believe this? if you re a ukraine expert and last week all the witnesses were