Was one of the largest allegations . I believe it was the Largest National delegation. Included in that delegation was Secretary Perry. Secretary perry, ambassador sondland, myself, ron johnson was there, and at the u. S. Embassy at the time joe pennington. We have talked a little bit this morning, but the president zelenskys inauguration came together quickly . Did. We had three days notice in which to put the delegation together. There has been discussion whether the Vice President was going to lead that effort and as it turned out, he was not able to lead it. Do you have any information where the Vice President was unable to join . I dont. Mr. Morrison, do you have any information as to why the Vice President was unable to participate in the delegation . No. Ambassador volker, you testified during your deposition that aid in fact gets held up from time to time for a whole assortment of reasons, is that your understanding . That is true. Sometimes the holdups are rooted in something
May, i believe you testified it was one of the largest delegations . I believe it was. I cant be 100 sure but i believe it was the Largest National delegation. Okay. And included in the delegation was Secretary Perry. Secretary perry, ambassador sondland, myself and senator ron johnson was there and the target defair joe pennington. And we talked a little bit this morning but the president Zelensky Inauguration came together rather quickly. It did. I believe we had about three days notice in which to put the delegation together. And there is discussion about whether the Vice President would be able to lead that effort and as it turned out he was not able to lead it. Do you have any information as to why the Vice President was unable to join . I dont. And mr. Morrison, do you have any information as to why the Vice President was unable to participate in the delegation . No. Ambassador volker, you testified during your deposition that aid does, in fact, get held up from time to time for
administration to object. i thought that this was a bad decision or a bad hold. maybe not a decision but a process and i wanted to mike sure all of the arguments were marshalled to get it lifted and so i spoke with the pentagon and laura cooper and with assistant secretary of affairs at the state department at the next higher level meeting and i speak spoke with officials in the european bureau and the staff and actively conveying that this needed to be lifted and wanted them to use my name in doing so because i felt the best prospect for positioning ourselves for negotiations with russia is the strongest defense capability for ukraine. and during this time period, did you come to believe that any of these investigations were part of the hold up in the aid? no, i did not. backtracking a little bit. on july 3rd you met in toronto
i thought that this was a bad decision, or a bad hold. maybe not a decision, but a process, and i wanted to make sure that all of the arguments were marshaled to get it lifted. so i spoke with the pentagon. cooper, i spoke with the assistant secretary of affairs at the state department who would represent the state department at the next higher meeting. i spoke with officials in the european borough, national security council staff. so i was actively trying to convey that this needed to be lifted. and i wanted them to be able to use my name in doing so, because i felt that the best prospect for positioning ourselves for negotiations with russia is the strongest defense capability for ukraine. and during this time period, did you come to believe that any of these investigations were part of the hold up in the aide? no, i did not. backtracking just a little bit on july 3rd, you met in