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A public or legal duty do you believe that not only was it quid pro quo but it was bribery im not a lawyer and im not going to characterize what something was or wasnt legally. You also said in your Opening Statement that secretary perry and your yourself as well as ambassador volcker worked with giuliani on the ukraine matter as an express or direction of the president is that right thats correct you also go on to say that we did not want to work with giuliani simply put we played the hand that we were dealt what did you mean by that and more importantly what did you think would happen if you did not play that hand i think what youre asking me is. Well you asked it i did as well what would happen if we didnt. It was very fragile with ukraine at the time there was no new ambassador the old master had left there was a new president we thought it was very very important to shore up the relationship in fact you actually said you g ....
Im not a lawyer and im not going to characterize what something was or wasnt legally. You also said in your Opening Statement that secretary perry and yourself as well as ambassador volker worked with giuliani on the ukraine matter as at express direction of the president , is that right . Thats correct. You also go on to say that we did not want to work with giuliani, simply put, we played. What did you mean by that and more importantly, what did you think would happen if you did not play that hand . I think what youre asking me is, well, you asked it. I did ask it. What would happen if we didnt . It was very fragile with ukraine at the time. There was no new ambassador. The old ambassador has left. There was a new president. We thought it was very, very important to shore up the relationship. In fact, you actually said you go on to say, we all understood that if we refused to work with mr. Giuliani, we would lose an important ....
To move pub lekly an confidently with the importance of issues of the president and the United States, and that is going to hopefully break the logjam, but at this point in time, the issues of importance to the president of the United States were what . That the two investigations. But nothing to do with Vice President biden, right . Again, i didnt make the connection there. I want to pivot briefly to the president s concerns about foreign assistance. Undersecretary hale who will be with us here later today testified that during this relevant time frame, there was a real focus to reexamine all of the federal aid programs. Are you aware of the interest of the president . I am aware of the president s skepticism of foreign aid and conditioning it on certain things. I am generally aware of that, yes. And ambassador hale testi ....
Meeting will come to water. We will proceed to the five minute questioning. I want to recognize myself for five minutes. First, i want to clarify something for the record. Wanted to clarify something for the record with respect to witness who testified on saturday, and that is mr. Sandy, he is a career official with the office of management and budget, and he is today reviewing his transcript, an opportunity that we give all of the witnesses before their transcript is released to make sure that it is accurate and correct. As his deposition was only taken on saturday, and this the soonest that we could arrange this. And we did inform the minority yesterday that if they wished to use any of the questioning from mr. Sandys deposition, we would do sond a take the excerpts even prior to the witness going through it, and they chose to not take advantage of that opportunity, but this is the far more significant point, and that is he is not the top official at the office of management and budg ....