It was not in any record i july 25th call. And this is consistent with the reported comments from received. But when you did see. Ambassadors volker and taylor. After the zelensky meeting, i yes, i saw that in september, also met with zelenskys senior correct. So on this continuum, the aide, andre yermak. Beginning of the continuum begins on may 23rd when the president instructs you to talk I Dont Recall the specifics of our conversation, but i believe the issue of investigations was to rudy . Correct. And you understood that as a probably a part of that agenda direction by the president that you needed to satisfy the or meeting. Concerns that Rudy Giuliani would express to you about what also, on july 26th, shortly the president wanted in ukraine . After our kiev meetings, i spoke not to me. By phone with President Trump. To the entire group, volker, perry and myself, correct. The white house, which has now, in your opening finally, finally shared certain statement you confirmed that
Phoebe with ambassador taylor, was he assesssatisfied that thie was now behindti him . I dont really know, because when i responded, get ahold of the secretary, and he said i agree. I never knew i whether he reach out to the secretaryhe or not. That was sort of the end at one point in the text you said lets get on the phone, you said youre an individual that doesnt like to walk through these issues on texts when you can talk about it on the 1 telephone, correct . I say that to everybody when something becomes more substantive than a few lines of text, i say, lets talk. Did you say that to ambassador taylor . I dont recall. I dont recall whether we spoke after that or whether he called the secretary. Basically, mr. Castor, wanted to get the notion across that ive gone as far as i can go with this, you need to youre the ambassador, you need to pick up the ball and run with it at this point. Okay. Just getting back to the irregular channel, did anyone else express any concerns to you abou
Now behind him . I dont really know. He responded when i said get ahold of the secretary, he said i agree and i never knew whether he reached out to the secretary or not. That was sort of the end of that. At one point in your text you said lets get on the phone and you said you are an individual that doesnt like to walk through these issues on texts when you can talk about it on the telephone, correct . I say talk it on the telephone correct . I say that to everybody when something becomes more substantive and that then a few lines of text. The speaker did you talk with ambassador taylor . I dont recall whether we spoke after that or he called the secretary. Basically mr. Castor wanted to get the notion across that i had gone as far as i can go with this. You are the ambassador and you need to pick up the ball and run with it at this point. Okay. Just getting back to the regular channel, did anyone else expressed concerns to you about this socalled irregular
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war crimes, of the unlawful deportation and transfer of ukrainian children. president zelenskyy says 200,000 ukrainians kids have been deported to russia and russian-occupied territory. the ukrainian government says at least 370 have been brought back, including nakita. the ngo, save ukraine, organized the mother s daring trip. 3,000 miles all the way into russia to bring home her son. they re not giving them back. we re taking them back. reporter: since the icc arrest warrant, he says, russia is making it harder. russians understand now that each case is valued for icc, for ukrainian, for future court. each case could be evidence. each case, it is evidence of war crime. reporter: on september 8th, nakita says, russian troops took him and 12 classmates from their boarding school outside of kharkiv, just two days before
that. we are preparing for that. i think there is no favourites and definitely i think we are not favourites in this series. we are really grateful for these type of we are really grateful for these type of opportunities. this is a special type of opportunities. this is a special group. this group has been able to special group. this group has been able to overcome a lot of different things able to overcome a lot of different things. handle a lot of adversity. setbacks things. handle a lot of adversity. setbacks and things that have not gone setbacks and things that have not gone the setbacks and things that have not gone the way we wanted them to go and instead of having that collapse our spirit. and instead of having that collapse our spirit, it allowed us to develop some our spirit, it allowed us to develop some fortitude and grit collectively and give some fortitude and grit collectively and give us something to rally round may 31st marked 100 days until the star