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507 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000036 (Oct. 2, 2019).
[7/10/19, 2:26:06 PM] Bill Taylor: Eager to hear if your meeting with Danyliuk and Bolton resulted in a
decision on a call.
[7/10/19, 10:26:13 PM] Bill Taylor: How did the meeting go?
[7/10/19, 10:29:44 PM] Kurt Volker: Not good—lets talk—kv
508 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000018 (Oct. 2, 2019). 509 Hill Dep. Tr. at 70-72.
510 Hill Dep. Tr. at 126-27.
Q: Okay. But what did you understand him to mean by that?
A: Well, based on what had happened in the July 10th meeting and Ambassador Sondland blurting out that he’d already gotten agreement to have a meeting at the White House for Zelensky if these investigations were started up again, clearly Ambassador Bolton was referring directly to those.
511 Hill Dep. Tr. at 129.
512 Hill Dep. Tr. at 139. (“I told him exactly, you know, what had transpired and that Ambassador Sondland had basically indicated that there was an agreement with the Chief of Staff that they would have a White House meeting or, you know, a Presidential meeting if the Ukrainians started up these investigations again.”)
513 Hill Dep. Tr. at 139.
514 Hill Dep. Tr. at 146-147.
515 Hill Dep. Tr. at 158-59, 161.
Q: What was Mr. Eisenberg's reaction to what you explained to him had and Mr. Griffith had explained to him had occurred the day before?
A: Yeah. He was also concerned. I mean, he wasn’t aware that Sondland, Ambassador Sondland was, you know, kind of running around doing a lot of these, you know, meetings and independently. We talked about the fact that, you know, Ambassador Sondland said he’d been meeting with Giuliani and he was very concerned about that. And he said that he would follow up on this.
516 Vindman Dep. Tr. at 37. (“Sir, I think I—I mean, the top line I just offered, I’ll restate it, which is that Mr. Sondland asked for investigations, for these investigations into Bidens and Burisma. I actually recall having that particular conversation. Mr. Eisenberg doesn’t really work on this issue, so I had to go a little bit into the back story of what these investigations were, and that I expressed concerns and thought it was inappropriate.”)
517 Vindman Dep. Tr. at 36.
518 Vindman Dep. Tr. at 38.
Q: Did he say anything to you, that, all right, I’m going to do anything with it?
A: I vaguely recall something about: I’ll take a look into it. You know, there might not be anything here. We’ll take a look into it, something of that nature. But—and then he offered to, you know, if I have any concerns in the future, you know, that I should be open—I should be—feel free to come back and, you know, share those concerns.
Q: Did either he or anyone from the legal staff circle back to you on this issue? A: No.
519 Vindman Dep. Tr. at 39-40.
520 Taylor Dep. Tr. at 29. (“In the same July 19th phone call, they gave me an account of the July 10th
meeting with the Ukrainian officials at the White House. Specifically, they told me that Ambassador Sondland had connected investigations with an Oval Office meeting for President Zelensky, which so irritated Ambassador Bolton
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