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This brings me to the topic of todays proceedings. I would like to recap my recollection of the timeline in which these events played out. I testified about all of this at length in my deposition. In july, i became aware of a hold being placed on obligation of the State Departments military financing or fmf and dods usai fund. In meetings i heard the president directed the Office Of Management And Budget to hold the funds because of his concern for corruption in ukraine. Let me say at the outset i have never discussed this or any other matter with the president and never heard directly from him about this matter. At a senior level meeting i attended july 26th chaired by National CouncilSecurity Leadership as in all other interagency meetin ....
Aware of their content at the time. i do not have any additional information about precisely what the ukrainians may have said, what may have been their source of information about a hold or possible issues with a flow of assistance or what the state department officials may have told them. my staff also advised me in the last few days of the following additional fact that may be relevant. to this inquiry. again, my staff does not recall informing me about them and i do not recall being made aware of this. july 3rd, 4:23 p.m., they received an e-mail from the state department saying the cm is currently being blocked by omb, currently referring to the state investigation the state would send for mff. on november 25th, a member of my staff got a question about what was going on with ukraine security assistance. ....