Was one of the largest allegations . I believe it was the Largest National delegation. Included in that delegation was Secretary Perry. Secretary perry, ambassador sondland, myself, ron johnson was there, and at the u. S. Embassy at the time joe pennington. We have talked a little bit this morning, but the president zelenskys inauguration came together quickly . Did. We had three days notice in which to put the delegation together. There has been discussion whether the Vice President was going to lead that effort and as it turned out, he was not able to lead it. Do you have any information where the Vice President was unable to join . I dont. Mr. Morrison, do you have any information as to why the Vice President was unable to participate in the delegation . No. Ambassador volker, you testified during your deposition that aid in fact gets held up from time to time for a whole assortment of reasons, is that your understanding . That is true. Sometimes the holdups are rooted in something
understanding what could be helpful communication from the ukrainian government, but not someone in a position to represent the u.s. government at all. okay, thank you. why don t we take a five or ten minute break. if i could ask the audience to allow the witnesses to leave the room first. we are in recess. welcome to the five, taking a break in the second impeachment proceeding. kurt volker and national security official to morrison testifying this afternoon, at it for about two and a half hours, taking a 5-10 minute break, we will use that time wisely to get some commentary for the five, greg, why don t we start with you and your overall impressions of the day. greg: what an absolute tremendous waste of time for everyone who watches this. this is not a hearing. it is a human resources meeting, okay. anybody who has been on both
what you going to do and the other thing better than that was poor dear white joe. [laughter] yeah. he gave, mr. president, i don t know if you re watching tonight but here is your slogan for whenever we see each other again. your time is up. [laughter] so true. that is so true. it s almost like he said my uber is here. here is my computer history, america enjoy yourself. well he s done. i also love wallwell. he s the guy if you ever worked and had to go to a human resources meeting, he s the co- worker who thinks by telling jokes or whatever that everybody likes it but he just makes the meeting longer. yeah. he s already in congress. that s the crazy thing. what district is that? is that like the children of the corn district? [laughter]
you think better was dear white joe. [laughter] he gave mr. president, i don t know if you re watching but here s your slogan, your time is up. [laughter] matter what now. [laughter] no matter what. it s almost like he said mike uber is here. here s my computer history, america. enjoy yourself. swallow is the guy, if you ve ever worked and had to go to a human resources meeting, it s like your 4o1k or sexual harassment, he s a coworker who things by telling humorous jokes or whatever, everybody likes it but he makes the meeting longer. he s arty in congress. yes.
people, you can t engage in any behavior that would be considered risky whatsoever. you are opening yourself up to black male, opening yourself up to attacks and complaints that will affect your decision-making. people know it was this is the standard playboo playbook. they are going to take on and take out a democrat, they throw out something like this. the best they could find was six years ago, there was an eight minute human resources meeting, and what they had said, shook their hands too long, squeezed her shoulder, tapped the foot on the table. at no time in the past or at no time i m sure i have shook many people s hands, probably, you know, accidentally bumped many people on their feet, five, you know, this is, again, a typical tactic receiving the