26efth. 17 . Yes. What do you come to mean by yes, sir. They got. Security assistan, three e amigos. As well. They cudid. If i said that number was my understanding of ambassador sondlands use of around 270 million. That term thed three people in would that probably be accurate . Charge of ukraine policy during the summer was he, gordon sound about right . Sondland and ambassador volker did they get aid in fy 18 . And secretary perry. When did you come to learn yes, sir. Including security about mr. T giulianis role and assistance . Including security what do you consider his role to assistance. We already talked about the have been . Er i first heard about former javelins and antitank missiles mayor jewgiulianis interest in that they were not able to purchase in previous ukraine in january of this year. Administrations. Have they gotten Security Assistance in fy 19 . Yes, sir. Prior to the 400 million or that was a different phase than what happened during the so that were discussing
we spent money in support of the fbi and this investigation to build capacity and track down stolenan assets, end quote, is that etcorrect? that is correct. it was launched in may 2014 by the attorney general of the u.s. and uk in conjunction with the world bank. in fact by 2016 you were so concerned about corruption questions related to burisma that when there was an effort to sponsor an essay you asked usad to stop it. that s correct. you testified it was because burisma had a poor reputation in the business and you didn t think it was appropriate for the u.s. government to be co-sponsoring with a company that had a bad reputation, correct? you are also aware and you testified today that hunter biden servedth on the board of burisma. correct. and you also testified that you were, indeed concerned about the appearance of conflict of interest. that is correct.
is that correct? that is correct. they were not made available to the ukraine under the obama administration. they were not. correct. shifting gears to corruption. one of the themes here today is that of rooting out corruption, which is anf important tool fo the president as we provide taxpayer funded aid to foreign countries. mr. kent, you had characterized ukraine as having long-standing corruption issues, correct? i did. and, in fact, you testified, quote, i would say that corruption is part of the reason why ukrainians came out to the streetsto in both 2004 when somebody tried to steal the election and again in 2014 because of a corrupt pro russian government that eventually collapsed. theal ukrainians decided enough was enough. is that your testimony? it remains so. you testified that you first came to learn about burisma in 2015 when you were the senior anti-corruption coordinate,
correct? correct. the acting deputy chief admission. you testified thaty the iss of corruption infi burisma was the u.s. interest because, quote, thiser is from your deposition. we had made ayo commitment to t ukrainian government in 2014 to try to recover an estimated tens of billions of stolen dollars of assets out of the country. is that o correct? that is a stolen assets that were in the name of the owner of burisma. he was the one who we believed had stolen thesm money. sure. so, the first case, this was the first case that the u.s., the uk and ukraine investigators worked on was against the owner of burisma? that is correct. this was during the obama administration? that s correct. so, forni the millions of americans viewing, the first investigation against the owner of burisma was under obama s administration? mi that s correct.
so he had a desperate man on the phone and he asked a president zelensky had to a desperate man for a favor. and based on your testimony, it commit to an investigation before the aid got released and the aid got released and didn t commit to an investigation? i was not wrong about what i sounds like begrudgely he did told you, which is what i heard. that favor to investigate the that s all i said. bidens and burisma, is that i told you what i heard. and that s the point. what you heard did not happen. right? president zelensky says in the transcript that he will pursue theri investigations. we know that president trump it didn t happen. asked for a favor to help his you had three meetings with the guy. he didn t tell you.yo political career and it appears as though the president of the it s not just could it have been ukraine esagreed to that favor. wrong. the fact is, it was wrong. do we know why it didn t actually happen? because it didn t happen. the whole point was you ha