investigation that president trump was demanding about joe biden. jennifer williams in her testimony in her deposition corroborates colonel vindman s claim that the ukrainian president mentioned that company by name and she made a note of it specifically even though the white house call notes don t reflect that the ukrainian president ever mentioned that company. now that may have just been an oversight by the white house notetakers. but it s weird that they didn t take the correction on that when they were told that they missed it. and substantively, if the ukrainian president did specifically mention that company, what colonel vindman has suggested is that it may indicate that the ukrainian president wasn t hearing that the president wanted investigations. it would indicate that he knew exactly which investigations president trump was asking for because that call was just part of what had been an ongoing campaign where the specific investigations of joe biden,
he has to pretend he doesn t read, i guess? jennifer williams testimony and alexander vindman s testimony tomorrow should be fascinating. they start at 9:00 a.m. in the afternoon it will be tim morrison and kurt volker. interestingly both tim morrison and kurt volker have also resigned their positions in the government just as the impeachment inquiry got underway. kurt volker was the u.s. envoy to ukraine. he likely tomorrow will have to clean up some of his earlier closed-door testimony that has been contradicted by multiple other witnesses including issues about his own involvement in pressing ukraine to announce these investigations if they wanted to get a white house meeting. to morrison s testimony behind closed doors was described by at least one republican member of the impeachment committees as, quote, alarming. among the things we learned from morrison s testimony was that president trump and john bolton the national security adviser who was fired from his job right as the ho
zelensky what he thought was so wrong about that call and what he did immediately after that call wrapped. he went immediately to the national security council s top lawyers with concerns that he might not have just heard something improper but illegal. he also explained in his deposition that he took detailed notes on that call about exactly what the two presidents talked about. he said some of the detailed corrections he proposed to the white house notes from that call weren t made, even though he took notes and was asked to give corrections, suggested those corrections and then they were just not accepted. the official he is going to be testifying alongside tomorrow jennifer williams and her deposition. she corroborated that from alexander vindman. she corroborated that there were specific things discussed on that call that for whatever reason weren t included in the official white house notes that were released of that call. jennifer williams, like colonel vindman, said that the uk
told them they weren t getting their military aid. jennifer williams says in her testimony that, well, she worked in vice president pence s office advising him on this part of the world. she says that she specifically flagged for vice president pence in his daily briefing not only the notes from trump s call with zelensky in which trump pressed for investigations and repeatedly mentioned joe biden. she says before that she specifically flagged for vice president pence that rudy giuliani was making these public claims saying that he wanted the ukrainian government to investigate joe biden and to investigate the 2016 campaign because that would benefit his client president trump. so jennifer williams is saying vice president pence was advised that this campaign was going on according to rudy giuliani and that this campaign was being carried out by the president on his calls with the ukrainian government. so vice president pence wants to say he doesn t know that stuff was happening. he ha
guess for me it shed some light on possible other motivations behind the security assistance hold. it should also be noted that jennifer williams is the only official from vice president mike pence s office who s been called to testify in the impeachment proceedings thus far, at least that we know of. to the extent that the vice president s own implication in this scandal really hinges entirely on his assertions and assertions of unnamed people around him that he was totally ignorant of this whole campaign. he didn t know what was going on, he had no idea that president trump was holding up military aid and making white house meetings and other things contingent on ukraine, coughing up specific investigations. vice president pence was directly involved in this pressure campaign. his defense is that it was unwitting, that he didn t realize what exactly he was pressuring ukraine to do when he