Ukraine had a statement about Fighting Corruption and mr. Yermak would say burr mace in 2016. Mr. Yermak provided me a draft statement, and i wanted to be assured that this statement would actually correct the perception that mr. Giuliani had of ukraine and what they stand for now so that that would also be conveyed to President Trump and solve this problem that id observed with our may 23rd meeting with the president. The problem that hes getting a bad set of information, Statement Like this could potentially correct that. So was mr. Giuliani satisfied with this statement . No, he was not. Why not . He believed that it needed to say burisma and 2016 specifically or else it would not be credible, it would not mean anything new. So, in fact, mr. Jewel yagiu wanted it to State Burisma and
one specifically for President Trump. Mr. Ambassador, heres the text you sent to the ukrainian official on august 13th, lets put that up on the screen. You said hi, andre. Good talking. Following is the
one specifically for president trump. mr. ambassador, here s the text you sent to the ukrainian official on august 13th, let s put that up on the screen. you said hi, andre. good talking. following is the text with an insert at the end for the two key items. mr. ambassador, those two key items were specific references to investigations of burisma and the 2016 election, isn t that right, sir? that is correct. did mr. giuliani dictate those key items to you, sir? i had just had a conversation with mr. yermak to describe the conversation that we d just had with mr. giuliani. mr. giuliani said that it would need to include these things for it to be convincing to him. i put them in so we understood what he was talking about and i shared it with andre to say this is what he is talking about. and you included them in the proposal to the ukrainians? i put it back in to be clear
zelensky having terrible people around him. who do you think he was calling terrible people around him? there were two people that came to mind. one of them was a former investigative journalist and later named sergei levchenko and he is bringing forth a black ledger alleging to paul manafort s relations with ukraine. that was one person. the other person referred to was the person being named as president zelensky s chief presidential administration andre bognan and he was with one of the members in the ukraine, and there were times about him being appointed to the administration. do you think of them as terrible people? i don t think of either one as terrible people. all right. mr. morrison, earlier in testimony that was solicited