Base of the Republican Party and to me. So i believe that he was at with very few defections. That may change, but right now i least affected by those and believed those and believed they were think thats a correct negative . Assessment by the white house, believed that they were that theyve got the senate tied negative and was conveying them up in a way that will protect to the president. So was it problematic that he the president from actually being removed from office. Believed they were negative i think the two variables, views . Yes, the whole thing was ned, would, in my guess, drawing problematic. Ambassador taylor testified on my past sort of in republican that on july 2nd, you told politics, would be public ukrainians that they needed to, quote, cooperate on opinion, should you see attacks investigations, end quote. Youre now saying that you dont on colonel vindman inching this recall saying those words; is from 51 support to 53, 54, 55. That correct . I dont believe i said th
you testified a little bit about you have served our country the june 28th conference call that you had with ambassador well. and here s the saddest, one of sondland, ambassador taylor, i m the saddest things about all this what the democrats are putting us through, you two guys not sure if deputy secretary kent was on the line. who are here telling it i don t believe so. straight, you both decided and secretary perry before you re going to step out of you looped in president government because of what these guys are doing. zelensky. am i right about the and that s the sad thing. participants of that, or was people like ambassador volker and tim morrison who have served secretary perry not on it? i m pretty sure that deputy our country so well are now stepping out of government assistant secretary kent was not on it. because of what these guys are i don t remember whether secretary perry was on it. and i don t remember whether i doing. we appreciate we appreciate stayed on for
have been released or if these open testimonies has perjured themselves or lied to this committee? no, sir. lieutenant colonel vindman reported to you; is that correct? he did, sir. now, you have a legal background. he said that he listened to the phone call, a phone call when you said you saw nothing that had occurred illegally, and he said he believed the president of the united states demanded to president zelensky that these investigations move forward. do you believe, because he only was telling us his opinion, do you believe in your opinion that the president of the united states demanded that president zelensky undertake these investigations? no, sir. to both of you, the ukraine is an aspireant to the eu. ambassador sondland is the ambassador to the eu. is yukraine in the ambassador s
but there are big national ambassador volker sent you a security implications tied to this. just imagine the counterfactual text message. here, imagine is donald trump you sent a text message to had done what he did, and we knew that, the white house giuliani, and i think it s on released this transcript, we knew he was essentially trying the screen now. to sell our foreign policy for and you said mr. mayor could we his own political benefit, and democrats did nothing. that would be a green light. that would signal that this is okay, this is fine to do, go forward, do this with china, do meet for lunch or coffee, i this with any country as you see think i have the opportunity to fit. the witnesses, tim morrison, former senior official from the nsc staff who worked for john get what you need. that is an accurate text bolton, seated alongside message. what did you mean by what you ambassador kurt volker, who was need? the people now representing an ambassador in ukraine, zelensky
generic comment about investigations. i think all of us thought it was inappropriate. the conversation did not continue and the meeting concluded. ambassador volker, we asked you about that meeting during your deposition. and you told us nothing about this. i believe we asked you about why the meeting came to an end and why you had earlier indicated i think to ambassador taylor that it did not go well. and your answer was that danliuk was in the weeds about national security policy. why didn t you tell us about this? because that s what i remembered from the meeting, what i provided in my october 3rd statement. as i said, i learned other things, including seeing the statements from alex vindman and from fiona hill, and that reminded me that yes, at the very end of that meeting, as it was recounted in colonel vindman s statement, i did remember that, yes, that s right, gordon did bring that up, and that was it.