About fighting corruption, we should also say specifically, burisma in 2016. Mr. Yermak provided me a statement. 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 is getting a bad set of information, a Statement Like this could potentially correct that. Was mr. Guiliani satisfied with the statement . No, he was not. He believed it needed to say burisma and 2016 specifically or else it would not be credible, would not mean anything. So in fact, mr. Guiliani wanted a statement that Referenced Burisma and the 2016 elections explicitly. One that would benefit, essentially, President Trump. It is to invest or come here is the text you sent to the ukrainian official on August August 13th. Lets put that up on the screen. You said, hi,
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 id observed with our may 23rd meeting with the president. The problem that hes 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, heres the text you sent to the ukrainian official on august 13th, lets put that up on the screen. You said hi, andre. Good talking. Following is the
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 hes 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, heres the text you sent to the ukrainian official august 13th. You said hey andrey good
discussion about there not being a full-throated embrace of the ukrainian reform agenda. is that right. with respect to his concern over and at no point did he come to you and say i saw something or no bribe, no stefanik and anything that miss stefanik asked you. did you hear president trump make a demand of anything that would constitute a crime? sir, i ve been trying to stay on the same side and no, sir, i did not hear him make a demand. you have a law degree so you are familiar with bribery and extortion. i m not a lawyer for the united states, sir? is it fair to say as you were listening to the call you weren t thinking wow!
not being a full throated embrace of the ukrainian reform agenda. is that fair? yes, congressman. with his respect to the concern of something improper, specifically at no point did he come to you and say, i heard something that i thought was improper and was a crime. sir, i have no recollection of him doing that. no bribe, no extortion, no quid pro quo, all of those things we asked you? no, sir, . as you were listening, did you hear president trump make a demand of anything that would constitute a crime? sir, i ve been trying to stay on the safe side of making legal conclusions but i did not hear him make any kind of demand. you have a law degree. yes or. so you are generally familiar with bribery and extortion. i am here for united states, sir. but is it fair to say that as you were listening to the call,