however, capitol police say it has no indication there will be any violence. and congress just finished the latest in a series of hearings, looking into the deadly insurrection at the u.s. capitol on january 6th. christopher wray answered questions from senators about intelligence and communication failures and who exactly was behind the riots. that attack, that siege was criminal behavior, plain and simple. and it is behavior that we the fbi view as domestic terrorism. it has no place in our democracy and tolerating it would make a mockery of our nation s rule of law. we have not to date seen any evidence of anarchists, violence or extremists, with antifa in connection with the 6th. we ve seen quite a number as we re building out the cases on the individuals we ve arrested for the violence. quite a number who, what we would call militia violent extremists. so we have a number who self-identify with the proud boys or the oath keepers. things like that. we have a couple inst
giuliani. mr. giuliani said they thought ukraine should make a statement about fighting corruption and mr. yermac provided me a draft statement and i wanted to be assured that this statement would actually correct the perception that mr. giuliani had of ukraine and what they stand for now so that that would also be conveyed to president trump and solve this problem that i had observed with our may 23rd meeting with the president. the problem being that he s getting bad set of information. a statement like this could potentially correct that. so was mr. giuliani satisfied with this statement? no, he was not. why not? he believed it needed to say burisma and 2016 specifically or else it would not be credible, it would not mean anything. so in fact mr. giuliani wanted a statement that referenced burisma and 2016 elections explicitly. one that would benefit
essentially president trump. mr. ambassador, here s the text you sent to the ukrainian official august 13th. you said hey
ukraine had a statement about fighting corruption and mr. yermak would say burr mace in 2016. mr. yermak provided me a draft statement, and i wanted to be assured that this statement would actually correct the perception that mr. giuliani had of ukraine and what they stand for now so that that would also be conveyed to president trump and solve this problem that i d observed with our may 23rd meeting with the president. the problem that he s getting a bad set of information, statement like this could potentially correct that. so was mr. giuliani satisfied with this statement? no, he was not. why not? he believed that it needed to say burisma and 2016 specifically or else it would not be credible, it would not mean anything new. so, in fact, mr. jewel yagiu wanted it to state burisma and
one specifically for president trump. mr. ambassador, here s the text you sent to the ukrainian official on august 13th, let s put that up on the screen. you said hi, andre. good talking. f
The nsc process? the nsc staff exists to ensure the president has the full array of options for his decision. thank you. i yield back. mr. castro. thank you chairman. thank you, gentlemen, for your testimony today. is it correct to say that both you gentlemen were either appointed or hired by the white house and by the trump administration? yes, sir. in my case by secretary tillerson. but part of the trump administration. yes. serving in the same administration. . ambassador volker, you previously identified that gordon sondland, i just know that he had a relationship with president trump that i did not have. in fact, in one text message dated july 26th you wrote to sondland, great photo. can you get this to potus without intermediaries. he spoke to the president from a
Policy? sir, the president. not some other staffer within the nsc process? it exists to make sure the president has the full array of options for his decision. thank you. i yield back. thank you, chairman. thank you, gentlemen, for your testimony today. is it correct to say both you gentlemen were either appointed or hired by the white house, by the trump administration? yes, sir. in my case by secretary tillerson. but part of the trump administration? yes. serving in the same administration. sure. ambassador volker, you previously testified that ambassador gordon sondland, quote, i just know that he had a relationship with president trump that i did not have. in fact, in one text message dated july 26, you wrote to ambassador sondland quote, great photo sondland can you get this to potus without intermediary.