pressure president zelensky. on september 25th, president trump said there was no pressure. when asked if he wanted zelensky to do more to investigate the former vp president trump responded vno, i want him to d whatever he can, whatever he can do inve terms of corruption because corruption is massive, that s what he should do. several witnesses attested to the president s concerns about ukrainian corruption. the initial readouts of the july 25th call from both the ukrainian government and the state department raised no concerns. although lieutenant colonel vindman noted concerns, those concerns were not shared by national security council leadership. they were not shared by general kellogg who listened on the call. lieutenant general kellogg said in a statement i heard nothing wrong or eaimproper on the call.
zelensky s inauguration as another way of pressuring ukraine to investigate former vice presidentga biden. jennifer williams, a senior advisor in the officeio of the vice president, testified that a colleague she said it was the chief of staff s assistant told her, the chief of staff s assistant, that president trump hadsi directed vice president pence not to attend the inauguration. however, williams had no firsthand knowledge of any such direction or the reasons given for any such direction. if indeed such a direction was given, it s not clear from the evidence why it was done because the vice president s office was juggling other potential trips during that time and the ukrainian parliament scheduled the election on an extremely short time frame.
conditioned asi meeting with president zelensky on investigating former vice president biden. mr. yarmac said that in an august 2019 new york times story which was published before the beginning of the impeachment inquiry. in this article yarmack said that he and rudy giuliani did not discuss a meeting. witness testify confirmed yar mack s statement. ambassador sondland testified he believed the meeting was conditioned on a public
factors created a narrow window for the vice president s participation in the inauguration. dr. hill testified that she had no knowledge that the vice president wasno directed not to attend. on may 16th, the outgoing ukrainian parliament scheduled the inauguration for may 20th, only four days later. may 20th was not one of the three dates that vice president pence s officeth had provided f his availability. williams testified that this early datefi surprised the vice president s office because we weren t expecting the ukrainians to look at that time frame. george kent said the short notice from the ukrainians forced the state department to scramble to find a u.s. official to lead the delegation, finally settling on secretary of energy rick perry. on may 20th, the date of president zelensky s inauguration, vice president pence was in jacksonville,
conditionality. president zelensky vocalized no concerns with the subject matters discussed. there is no indication of bribery, extortion or other illegalhe conduct on the call. the call summary shows president trump and president zelensky engaged in pleasantries a and cordialities. the call is not the sinister mob shakedown that some democrats have described. president trump raised his concerns about european allies paying their fair share in security assistance to ukraine. a concern that president trump would continue to raise both publicly and privately. there is no discussion on the call, i repeat no discussion on the call about the upcoming 2020