Mean, thats the appropriate way to raise an issue with the ukrainian president , correct . Its appropriate for the Justice Department and the Prosecutor General to cooperate and to exchange information, yes. To the extent the president has concerns and to the extent the Attorney General is having u. S. Attorney durham look into it, isnt it entirely appropriate for the president to flag this for president zelensky and say youn touch with our official channels . Mr. Castor, i dont know the precise appropriateness of these kinds of relations. Now, were either of you involved with the preparation for the 7 25 call . I was not. I was not. How do you account for that . I mean, you were two of the key officials with responsibility for ukrainian policy. If the president of the United States is going to have a call with the leader of ukraine, why
wouldnt you ordinarily be involved with the preparation . Sir, we work for the Department Of State in an embassy overseas. Preparation for a president
zelensky and mr. yermak and told them although this was not a quid pro quo, if president zelensky did not clear things up in public, we would be at a stalemate. that was one point. it was also the case mr. morrison talked to you, right? no. what i was going to say is ambassador sondland also told me that he reck erecognized that ia mistake to have told the ukrainians that only the meeting with the president in the oval office was held up in order to get these investigations. no, it was not just the meeting, it was also the security assistance. that is everything. those two discussions i understand. okay. just to recap, you had three meetings with president zelensky, no linkage in these three meetings came up. ambassador zelensky didn t announce he was going to do an investigation to have the bidens.