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
how many times when you talked to your ukrainian counterparts did you ask them to investigate the bidens? never, sir. why not? sir, it was not a policy objective that i was aware of. but with all due respect, mr. morrison, you are not in the white house to carry out your policy objectives. you just testified that the president sets the foreign policy objectives for the united states and the one call that you listened to between the president of the united states and the president of ukraine, the president of the united states priorities were to investigate the bidens and i m asking you, sir, why didn t you follow up on the president s priorities when you talked to the ukrainians? sir, i did not understand it as a apology objective. mr. morrison, i know that you put that conversation in that conversation in the server because as you said, the political consequences and other reasons that you gave, but you