negative? and was conveying them to the president. so was it problematic that he believed they were negative views? yes. the whole thing was problematic. ambassador taylor testified that on july 2nd you told ukrainians that they needed to cooperate on investigations. you are now saying that you don t recall saying those words, is that correct? i don t believe that i said the words cooperate on investigations? did you say investigations? i believe i did. what did you mean by investigations? burisma and 2016 was in my mind. but he wanted to keep it general. and ukraine being convincing to giuliani and also the president that they were serious about that corruption would engage in whatever investigations necessary to clean up the country. moving to july 10th, ambassador volker sent you a
was it specifically about these investigations? you said burisma? in order to for fight corruption, you need to see what ukrainian citizens are up to. what was the purpose of that? was it because the president, you knew well, that the president wanted those investigations to be done as a condition for them to have information in the white house. first off, we have to be clear what we are talking about in terms of investigations. we are not talking about vice president biden. burisma has nothing to do with you are saying i m saying ukrainians within the company of burisma had acted in a corrupt way, that is a legitimate thing for ukraine to investigate. if they can make a statement about their intentions on fighting corruption domestically, that is helpful in order to convince
wants to make sure that he has a deal with the ukrainians. i did not know specifically other than the generic formation. i yield back. 15 minutes to ranking member nunes. parliamentary inquiry of mr. chair. do you expect any more of these magical 15 minute moments in the back? i don t know how magical they are, they are produced by 660 that we can have successive rounds of up to 45 minutes. this is part of the prescribed procedure under the house resolution. do you expect more this evening? i do not expect more will be necessary. thank you, gentlemen. for everyone watching, this is another example of how out of control this process has become. where the democrats just magically give themselves additional minutes. which they are right in the special rule that they wrote,
i was thinking of burisma in 2016. you understood that that s what the ukrainians interpreted investigations to be about to burisma and the 2016 election? i don t know specifically at that time if we had talked that specifically, burisma and 2016, that was my assumption that they would be thinking that too. now, mr. morrison, when did you have that conversation with fiona hill about burisma and the parallel track, parallel process, rather involving ambassador sondland and giuliani, do you recall? a number of handoff discussions between one july and 15 july. so in that period of time, you were certainly aware of this effort to promote to this burisma investigation that ambassador sondland and rudy giuliani were going about? at least you had heard about it from dr. hill? i heard about it from
a key minister and their government saying all kinds of things about president trump, that certainly looks like it is trying to influence the election. and when mr. poroshenko lutsenko says that political figures want hillary clinton s win, there pry sticks in a candidates mind. we all run campaigns when people say bad things about us in the course of the campaign, we don t necessarily think things about them. but you were commenced that zelensky was a real deal? that is correct. you spent a lot of time with the guy. and when aide was frozen, you know if you could get them together, it will work out. when aide was frozen, what did you say? you told ukrainians, don t worry about it. you said don t be alarmed, is that right? that is correct. guess what happened, when aide was frozen and it was released, all kinds of interaction between president zelensky and senior u.s. officials, right? starts with the call, starts with a call from president trump