Collecting it, they were not passing it to you, they were passing it to State Department . Department of defense . This is what they reported to me. I have not seen the documents that have been collected. I only know those documents that i have produced or that my staff at my staff has brought to my attention or that i have received. So no, i do not know what has happened with the documents that have been collected. Same general question to you, sir. I requested it wants given access to documents that had originated or were sent to me for the pertinent matters of this investigation during a finite. Back. I dont have information about what is going on in terms of other documents that i did not produce or do not receive. There was a move to gather them, and i understood generally and directly and informally that they had been gathered. That is the extent of my knowledge. It is not my area of
responsibility. Yes, but did they pass them on to you or did they pass them on to the administrat
that is the statement that the president reportedly made as reported to me by the office of management and budget. and then you re setting your testimony that based on recommendations for me and other community advisors the department of defense in coordination with the department of state certified and made 2019 that ukraine had taken steps necessary and you certified the release of the dollars, is that correct? that is correct, sir. there was a small change in ukraine in the spring of 2019, wasn t there? yes, sir. yeah, can you elaborate on what that change was? the government of well, president zelensky was elected to government. yeah, you have a brand-new guy coming in. in fact, he had just been, i believe sworn in the day you approved the dollars. was in may 23rd? i think he was sworn in, i guess it was a couple of days before.
burisma? no, sir. thank you. ms. cooper, you have a great staff. i don t think my staff would ve read my 115 page deposition and gave me feedback. so give them gold stars. you said in your deposition, and confirmed for my colleague from california that to you started on 23 may, at the ukraine aid for the review of the department their defense in the industry of the department of defense was corruption passed, is that correct? sir, i think the wording was more along the lines of progress has been made or sufficient progress has been made. it did not reference any kind of anticorruption test per se. did this change or was there a reevaluation with a new president coming in? because president zelensky was inaugurated into office two days before that date, did that have
kiev. and during my visits to kiev, i was impressed with what she was doing there to the extend that i asked her if she would be willing to stay if there was a possibility because we had a gap coming up. i support and believe in the institution and the people of the state department paradigm one of them. i have been for 35 years. all of us are committed to america s national security, and we have the best group of diplomats all over the world. that refers to all state officers who have testified before this committee. if i may, i would like to read a letter that the undersecretary for management wrote on novembeg member of the senate foreign relations committee in response to a communication from him. a number of department employees have testified before the house of representatives during its inquiry regarding ukraine. no employee has faced any adverse action by the department for testimony before congress on this matter. the department will not discipline any department employee for