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544 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000042 (Oct. 2, 2019).
Volker:
Orchestrated a great call w Rudy and Yermak. They are going to get together when Rudy goes to Madrid in a couple of weeks.
In the meantime, Rudy is now advocating for phone call
I have call into Fiona’s replacement and will call Bolton if needed.
But I can tell Bolton and you can tell Mick that Rudy agrees on a call, if that helps
I talked to Tim Morrison. (Fiona’s eplacement). He is pushing but feel free as well.
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Sondland:
545 Taylor Dep. Tr. at 30.
546 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV000000 37 (Oct. 2, 2019). 547 Taylor Dep. Tr. at 74.
548 Kent-Taylor Hearing Tr. at 68. 549 Taylor Dep. Tr. at 177.
550 Sondland Dep. Tr. at 183.
551 Sondland Hearing Tr. at 17.
552 Sondland Hearing Tr. at 18.
553 Sondland Hearing Tr. at 19; 17. 554 Sondland Hearing Tr. at 27.
555 Sondland Hearing Tr. at 26.
556 Sondland Hearing Tr. at 27.
557 Taylor Dep. Tr. at 26.
558 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 25. 559 Hill Dep. Tr. at 420-421.
Q: You’ve mentioned repeatedly concerns that you had about, in particular, Mr. Giuliani and his efforts. When you read the call transcript of July 25th, the call record, which you must have done just a couple weeks ago, did it crystalize in your head in any way a better understanding of what was transpiring while you were there?
A: In terms of providing, you know, more information with hindsight, unfortunately, yes.
Q: And in what way?
A: The specific references, also juxtaposed with the release of the text messages by Ambassador Volker—you know, what I said before—really was kind of my worst fears and nightmares, in terms of, you know, there being some kind of effort not just to subvert the national security process but to try to subvert what really should be, you know, kind of, a diplomatic effort to, you know, kind of, set up a Presidential meeting.
Q: This may—
A: There seems to be an awful lot of people involved in, you know, basically turning a White House meeting into some kind of asset.
Q: What do you mean by “asset”?
A: Well, something that was being, you know, dangled out to the Ukrainian Government. They wanted the White House meeting very much. And this was kind of laying out that it wasn’t just a question of scheduling or having, you know, the national security issues worked out, that there were all of these alternative discussions going on behind.
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