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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 supp ....
Does. But his aides and his campaign, the white house, they have been sending out very negative messages about Lieutenant Colonel vindman. They tried to use something morrison said behind closed doors when he said there were people that questioned vindmans judgment at nsc, specifically fiona hill that well hear from thursday. I his Opening Statement, i think he realized how much play that has got. He said he wasnt here to criticize his colleagues. Saw vindman prepared to address it as he was there to testify earlier. He brought a Performance Review from fiona hill, the official, that morrison had the conversation with, where it praised him multiple times and his performance in the job. You see tim morrison and kurt volker, beginning to walk back in. Theyll sit down and the hearing will resume. The next round w ....
Incredibly important. mr. morrison? i agree, sir. i yield back. mr. himes. thank you, mr. chairman, thank you, gentlemen, for your testimony today. president trump has described his july 25th phone call with president zelensky as, quote, perfect. and i think he has done that on twitter, not once, not twice, by my count 11 times. it feels to me like the characterization of perfect is of a piece with the idea that we hear in defense of the president s request to the ukranians. but that s just normal course of business pursuing anti-corruption. i have been concerned from the start this is not about going after corruption, it is in fact about aiming corruption at the vice president. mr. morrison, you listened in on the call in the white house situation room. did you hear the president mention crowdstrike and the ....
Sondland at least you heard about it from dr. hill? i heard from dr. hill. i want to pull up a the wall street journal that quotes an email from july 13th that ambassador sondland sent to you. he wrote quote sole purpose is for zelensky to give potus assurances of new sheriff in town, corruption ending, unbundling moving forward, any hampered investigations will be allowed to move forward transparently. you responded tracking. what did you understand ambassador sondland to mean when he wrote to you any hampered investigations will be allowed to move forward transparently? i don t know that i had any understanding. these are emails, july 13th emails. i wasn t even in the seat yet, but i knew that among head of state meetings we were attempting to schedule, there was one between the president and president zelensky. ....
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 ....