are looking forward to the visit. i think it will still be great if you can come be with us on this important day, the results are incredible. they re very impressive for us, it is absolutely fantastic if you could come on that day. the president: very good, we ll let you know very soon and when see you soon regardless. say hello to your family and let them know i send my best regards. zelensky: thank you very much. the president: ta take care of yourself and give a good speech today. zelensky: i will practice my english. the president: good day, good
luck. i m glad i was able to read that into the record so the american people know the very first call that the president trump had with president zelensky. and with that i yield back the balance of my time. mr. chairman i have a parliamentary inquiry. i do want to comment i have a point of order under h-res 660 will the chairman continue to prohibit the witness from answering republican questions as you have done all this week. not a proper point of order, the gentlewoman will fwhot recognized. i have a point of order. the gentleman is not recognized. there are transcripts that have not been released. the ranking member was allowed to exceed the opening
elect zelensky. i would like to congratulate you on a job well done and congratulations on a fantastic collection. zelensky, good to hear from you, i appreciate the congratulations. the president: that was an incredible election. zelensky: thank you very much, as you see we tried very hard to do our best. we had you as a great example. the president: i think yi think you will do a great job, i have many friends from ukraine that know you and like you and expected you to win and it s really an amazing thing that you ve done. i guess in a way i did something similar. we re making tremendous progress in the u.s. we have the most tremendous economy ever.
i just want today congratulate you. i have no doubt you will be a fantastic president. zelensky: first, thank you so much for the congratulations, we in ukraine are independent and we re going to do everything for the people. you are, as i said, a great example. we re hoping we can expand on our jobs as you did. you will also be a great example for many. you re a great example for our new managers. i also would like to invite you if possible to the inauguration. i know how busy you are, but if it is possible for you to come to the inauguration ceremony that will be great. great for you to do to be with us on that day. the president: that is very nice, i ll look into that and give us a date at the very minimum we ll have a great representative or more from the united states will be with you on that great day. we ll have somebody at a minimum, a very, very high level, and will be with you.
i think that s a fair statement, yes. mr. goldman. thank you, mr. chairman. ambassador yovanovitch, on april 24th of this year at approximately 10:00 p.m. you received a telephone call while you were at the embassy in kiev from the director general of the state department. this was just three days after president zelensky s election and the call between president trump and president zelensky that we just heard from ranking member nunes. at the time that this urgent call came in, what were you in the middle of doing? i was hosting an event in honor of an anti-corruption activist in ukraine. we had given her the woman of courage award from ukraine and,