did dr hill or mr marson ever. ask you questions about whether you were trying to access information outside of your lane they did not. and. another you know aspect of the ukraine portfolio that you were not a part of or some of the communications mr marson was having with ambassador taylor correct and did you ever express concern that he was leaving you off those calls. well certainly it was concerning he had just come on board he didn't have the you know he was in steeped in all the items that we were working on including the policy that we had developed over the preceding months. and i thought i could contribute to that too is the performance of his duties ok when you were you went to ukraine for the inauguration correct i have and any point during that trip did mr downey look offer you a position of defense minister with ukrainian government he did and how many times that he did it i believe it was 3 times and give any reason why he asked you to do that i don't know but every single time i dismissed it upon ret

i want to ask you mr marson about the whistleblower complaint. i don't want to ask you this speculate as to the identity but i want to ask you about the accusations that started this as to their veracity. first of all. the whistleblower who apparently was not on the call advised the i.c.i. ji. that he or she was concerned that the president's conduct constituted under title 50 u.s. c section 3033 quote a serious problem abuse or violation of law or executive order and quote. again to be clear you didn't hear a violation of law or executive order as you listen to the call sir i made no judgment about any illegal conduct occurring whistleblower also reported in starting this inquiry asserted that the pres that president trump quote sought to pressure the ukrainian leadership to take actions to help the president's 2020 reelection bid president trump does not mention 2020 the call. no sir i don't believe you did present trump doesn't mention his reelection bid during the call does he sir i don't believe you did and you did not hear president trump p

mr marson testified at his deposition ok we don't head out in front of us you can give us that we'll take a look i think in this but i could say for myself i i did there were the concerns about leaks seemed valid and i wasn't particularly critical i thought this was sensitive and was not going to question in the attorney's judgment on that and even on the codeword server you had access to it yes. so at no point in time during the course your official duties were you were you denied access to this information correct correct. as williams i want to. turn to you for a moment and you testified that you believe it transcript is complete and accurate of the than one issue you mentioned yes that's the template substantively accurate yes. now did you express any concerns to anyone in your office about what you heard on the call my supervisor wasn't listening on the call as well so because he had heard the same information i did not feel a need to have a further conversation with him about it and you never had any concerns of anyone else in the vice president's office i did not discuss the ca

and mr marson. you were also aware of the president's schedule view of foreign aid generally yes and that there was a initiative that he was looking at foreign aid pretty broadly yes and trying to scrutinize to make sure the u.s. taxpayers are getting their money's worth yes. and the president was also interested was he not in better understanding opportunities for increased burden sharing among the europeans yes and what can you tell us about that the president was concerned that the united states seemed to to bear the exclusive brunt of security assistance to ukraine he wanted to see the europeans step up and contribute more security assistance and was there any interagency activity whether it be with the state department of the defense department and coordination by the national security council to look into that a little bit for the president we were surveying the data to understand who was contributing what and sort of in what categories. and so the president's events concerns the interagency t

that ambassador sunland had spoken to president trump i wasn't sure whether he had or not he has mr marsonjust said said that he does speak with president drawn by knew that he had conversations in general i didn't know specifically about one leading up to this now on the screen in front of you is another text message from you that same morning yes at 8 36 in the morning to andre yarmuk yes i believe because of the time difference this is actually in the afternoon in ukraine ukraine and so this is east coast time that's right so this is slightly less than a half hour before the call between president trump and president selenski right and can you just read what you wrote there yes and just after the launch that i had with it's a good lunch thanks heard from the white house assuming president z. convinces trump he will investigate get to the bottom what happened 2016 we will nail down date for a visit to washington good luck see you tomorrow. and does this accurately relay the message that you had received from ambassador sohn yes now mr morrison did the national security council also prepa

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well during the deposition i asked you mr marson whether others raised the concern that mr colonel them and may have leaked information you did ask that yes yeah and your answer was others that represented that yes ok and i asked you whether you were concerned colonel women did not keep you in the loop at all times with his official duties yes and in fact when he went to the national security council lawyers following the july 25th call he did not 1st come to you is that correct correct and you were his. supervisor in the chain of command correct correct and in hindsight did you wish that he had come to you 1st before going to the lawyers yes and why is that. one is if you had concerns about something about the content of the call that's something i would expect to have been notified of i also think just as a matter of practice since we both went to the lawyers we didn't necessarily both need to and economy of effort may have prevailed ok at any point subsequently he did he become frustrated that he felt cut out of some some of the ukraine portfolio yes and what was the nature of his co

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ambassador volcker not to my knowledge either did either of you ever have any evidence of quid pro quo as marson no ma'am and mr volcker i did not any evidence of bribery. and the evidence of treason. no evidence of treason without your back so all thank you mr morrison did embassador bolton want the security aid hold lifted as congressman who did you testify that ambassador bolton had a one on one meeting with president trump in late august related to ukraine security assistance is that right sir can you point to where i testified to that on page 266 you said ambassador bolton had a one on one meeting with president trunk in late august 21000 but the president was not yet ready to approve the release of the assistance to remember that there was this this is to 26 yes to 66 and to 68 but i'm asking you did that happen or did it not so i just want to be i want to be clear characterizing it ok. and you testified to that what was the outcome of that meeting between ambassador bolton and president trump ambassador bolton did not yet believe the president was ready to approve the assistance did ambas

jordan where you are, changing the questioners around, the list of hunter biden, alexandria, tim marsonlly ohr, the anonymous whistleblower whose secondhand initiated the impeachment inquiry, his or her secondhand complaint. tell us how you came up with the list. >> very clear, maria, we sad with devin, we sat with oversight and foreign affairs and we looked at it, we looked at all what has transpired. remember that adam schiff started this all by wanting the whistleblower to testify and now adam schiff gets to died who comes forward and now fighting the whistleblower from coming forward, why is he doing that, is it because he found out that the staff met with him and the whistleblower's attorney tweeted that the coup had started, that impeachment will follow ultimately that he predicted attorney, that cnn will play a key role, maria, it is clear now more than ever this is a calculating coup and it is being orchestrated by adam schiff, we are watching him orchestrate a takedown of a president after we just celebrated 30 years of taking down the berlin wall. maria: unbelievable and, you

barisan it was really an investigation into biden which he acknowledged would be inappropriate and mr marson gave testimony as to conversations that he had with ambassador sonnen. about the conversations that he had relayed to the ukrainians about the hold and secure assistance being a result of the failure to secure the investigation so i can understand why the minority does not want to now characterize them as minority requests to witnesses but nonetheless they were minority requested witnesses i now recognize myself for 5 minutes and i want to begin by asking you. it's cooper about what you just informed us of to make sure that i understand the import of what you're saying as early as july 25th this same day president trump spoke with president saleh on the phone and. asked for this favor the same day that presents a linsky thank the united states for its military support and signaled it was ready to purchase more javelins on that date. you got inquiries your staff got inquiries from someone at the ukrainian embassy who was concerned about the status of the military assistance is that cor