Yes. Now, ambassador taylor also testified that and mr. Morrison both of them testified that you told them that President Trump said there was no quid pro quo which you also included in the text message that you referred. But then you went on and they had slight variations as to what you told them, but then you said that to ambassador taylor that president zelenskiy himself not the Prosecutor General needed to clear things up in public or there would be a stalemate. And mr. Morrison recounted something similar. You dont have any reason to doubt that both of their very similar recollections of the conversations they had with you, do you, ambassador sondland . Let me break that down, mr. Goldman. The text as i said about the no quid pro quo was my effort to respond to ambassador taylors
concerns to go to President Trump apparently ambassador taylor had access to Secretary Pompeo. He did not have access to President Trump so i made the phone call. I said what do you want . President trump
at one point attributed to you the terminology that the president has given you a large remit. are you familiar with her assertion of that? i didn t understand what she was talking about. okay. but we have and you got into this a little bit in your deposition, you know, you said that the president gave you a special assignment with regard to ukraine, correct? well, when the president appointed me as u.s. ambassador to the european union, ukraine was part of my portfolio. what happened my assignment largerap than just being part o my portfolio were the unique circumstances where there was no current sitting ambassador in ukraine and there was a new president in ukraine. and the discussions that we had, the three amigos, perry, volker, andy, i, was that ukraine neede extraordinary, as highra level