may, i believe you testified it was one of the largest delegations? i believe it was. i can t 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 don t. 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
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
On that piece. so i think that absolutely is the direction that he would go in. and i think it s worth, also, backtracking a little bit, where this all comes from. it was jared kushner who pushed donald trump reportedly, to fire comey. comey leads to the special counsel and that s what leads to this referral. so when they said they were going to really look at everything that was going on, that they were going to take the evidence wherever it leads, this is part of that piece, where you end up raiding the president s personal lawyer s office. i want to do a lightning round, yes or no to all of you, and as we continue, do you think donald trump, who s not known for regret or self-assessment, self-reflection, i think it s fair to say, krystal. fair. do you think as he watches this tv coverage, because we have out on good authority that he s watching and he knows they re going through the files and he knows what s in those files, do you think he regrets saying on thursday, ask mich
You are stifling children and setting them up for failure. backtracking a little bit is a good idea. are schools lacking in common sense? somebody has to defend the country and maybe you start out with a pop tap gun. i think that the real question is is what happens when the government cracks down on this new prarm of form of weapon. these pop starts can t be a part of the food program. wraib that s why they are going after them. this is a gun. exactly. that s a real thing. inevitably we will end up with a scandal where pop tarts are walked across the border and given to the mexican cartel and who knows what will happen. or the company moves to nevada and their school system is over return. one of the biggest problems
But the president made it clear that won t be happening. what does advise and support mean? if it just means helping iraqi forces, you re going to get limited impact. if they re out there alongside guiding on the battle field you could see push-back by isis on gains made. i am very underwhelmed by this 300. it is not a strong showing of support. at the very at least it shows the grudgingly begrudgingly sees an interest in a terrorist haven in iraq. we re behind the curve but it s at least something. david petraeus backtracking a little bit saying he would support limited airstrikes against leadership of the isis group because isis targets the west, and that would be one way of protecting us. i think he s i m glad to hear him say that. isis has shown a desire to hit the west. the caliphate expanding between syria and baghdad