Phoebe with ambassador taylor, was he assesssatisfied that thie was now behindti him . I dont really know, because when i responded, get ahold of the secretary, and he said i agree. I never knew i whether he reach out to the secretaryhe or not. That was sort of the end at one point in the text you said lets get on the phone, you said youre an individual that doesnt like to walk through these issues on texts when you can talk about it on the 1 telephone, correct . I say that to everybody when something becomes more substantive than a few lines of text, i say, lets talk. Did you say that to ambassador taylor . I dont recall. I dont recall whether we spoke after that or whether he called the secretary. Basically, mr. Castor, wanted to get the notion across that ive gone as far as i can go with this, you need to youre the ambassador, you need to pick up the ball and run with it at this point. Okay. Just getting back to the irregular channel, did anyone else express any concerns to you abou
going to the next exhibit, exhibit 10, where or august 10th, rather. this is between you and andriy yermak. what did you say, initially, in this i exchange? hello, good oh, no, that s yermak. how was your conversation. and mr. yermak responds, hello, dsgood, my proposal, we receive date and then we make general statement with discussed things. once we have a date, we ll call for a press briefinge announci upcoming visit a and outlining vision for theit reboot of u.s./ukraine relationship including among other things burisma andgs election meddling and investigations. and you respond, got it. that was your understanding of what this statement had to say to satisfy mr. giuliani, is that right? iuyes. and then ultimately satisfy the potus deliverable? yes. now, the next day you write