where ambassador sondland right at the top morrison ready to get dates as soon as possible stinking firms. what did you respond? i said excrement with two exclamation points. not sure i did. i think potus really wants the deliverable. what d you say to that. but how does he know that? he said yep, clearly lots of combos going on. you are referenced in this text message. have you discussed confirming a date for a white house visit for president zelensky with ambassador sondland around this time? i likely would have. did you have any discussions with him about a statement that ukraine that they were trying to get ukraine to make? i did not. where you are aware do you
don t hold it personally, i don t think it is you guys. but whatever drug deal the democrats are cooking up here on the dais, the american people are not buying it. i know you both answered this in your opening statements, but i just want to bring a little bit more clarity to it, mr. morrison, i will start with you. did anybody ask you to bribe or extort anyone at any time during her time in the white house. no, sir. and you were the top person for ukraine in the white house? i would argue ambassador bolden would be. according to ambassador bolden? ambassador volker, you have a storied career, and you are the special envoy to ukraine? that is correct. did anyone at the white house ever ask you to bribe or extort anything out of anyone at any
after one in-person meeting i had on july 19th, they are giuliani raised and i rejected the computer see the theory that biden would have been influenced in his decision as vice president by money paid to his son. i have known vice president biden for 24 years. he s an honorable man. i hold him in the highest rega regard. at no time was i aware of or knowingly took part in an effort to urge ukraine to investigate vice president biden. from the documents are provided, he was not a topic of discussion. i was not on the july 25th phone call between president trump and president zelensky. it was not made aware of any reference until the transcript of that call was released on september 25th, 2019. throughout this time arrears an important distinction. i urge the ukrainian to maintain such a distinction. i did not know that president trump or others
concerns about corruption in ukraine and the president s prioritization of getting the europeans to contribute more to security sector assistance. that he directly explain to the ukrainians that those were the actual reasons for the hold? was he commenting on general concerns of the president? i don t know that he necessarily acknowledged the hold. he mentioned that we were reviewing the assistance. that is the way that i herded. that s the way i would characterize it. and those of the points that he raised to help president zelensky understand where we were in our process. to your knowledge, on the staff level as the coordinator of all of the interagency process, you are not aware of any review of the ukraine security assistance money, or you? well, we had been running
that taxpayers got their money s worth, didn t they? not for me to say. you believe america s policy on the ukraine has been strengthened as to your tenure? absolutely when i look back at the record i think we did an awful lot to support ukraine. this is in fair part due to president trump? he approved each of the decisions made along the way. providing lethal defensive equipment and the nonrecognition statement on crimea, two of the most important ones. and for many years there had been an initiative in the interagency advocating for lethal defensive weaponry for ukraine, correct? that is correct. it was not until president trump and his administration went in that that went through? that is correct. the delegation to president zelensky s exaggeratio inauguration in mt