To investigate what happened in the past and apply its own laws. No one in the new team had anything to do with anything that may have happened in 2016. They were making Television Shows at the time. Iral i also said it is credible to me that he would have been influenced by financial or personal motives in carrying out duties as Vice President. A different issue is whether some individual ukrainians may have attempted to influence the 2016 election or thought they could buy influence. That is at least plausible given ukraines reputation for corruption. The accusation that he acted independently did not seem credible to me. I connected mayor giuliani and the aide by text lantand later t i phone. They met in person on august 2, 2019. In conversations with me following that meeting which i did not attend, mr. Giuliani said that he had stressed the importance of ukraine conducting investigations into what happened in the past and mr. Yermoc stressed, he said it is their position to conduc
were often on head of state calls but not always. i wanted to make sure that john eisenberg is the legal adviser and his deputy were aware to review this particular transcript. you wanted them to review it because of the potential political consequences, not because anything was wrong? correct. political consequences was an umbrella term i used in my statement to describe a series of events. i feared about what would happen if and when the content of the transcript or the content of the mem-com leaked. just so i understand this correctly pt you heard the call. you recognized that president trump was not discussing the talking points that the nsc prepared and instead was talking about the investigation that s fee owna hill warned you about and then you reported it immediately to the nsc legal adviser.