"must announce the opening of the investigations," according to the closed-door deposition of a former National Security Council official.
House impeachment investigators also released Saturday the transcript of Jennifer Williams, an aide to Vice President Mike Pence, who listened into the July 25 call along with Morrison. While Morrison did not take specific issue with the content of Trump's call with Zelensky, both aides described their concerns as they listened to Trump discussing political investigations.
After a September 1 meeting between Zelensky and Vice President Mike Pence in Warsaw, Morrison testified he saw Sondland from across the room speaking with a top aide to Zelensky. Afterward, Sondland walked over to Morrison to tell him what he'd said. Morrison testified he had concerns that what Sondland told him was exaggerated or inaccurate. But he said that"as often as I had time to," he worked to confirm Sondland's communications with Trump, and he never discovered an instance where they had not communicated.Morrison said Sondland was a concern for his predecessor, former White House Russia expert Fiona Hill, who is also scheduled to testify publicly next week.
"There was the normal process, where decision-making went through the duly appointed personnel, whether that's the Chief of Mission, Ambassador Taylor, Volker, the appropriate personnel from the Departments of State and Defense and Energy and intelligence agencies and so forth, as we normally do business," Morrison said."And there was this second track, chiefly led by Ambassador Sondland, where Rudy Giuliani's name would come up.
He explained that his concern about it leaking was because he"didn't necessarily fully understand how everybody would use it" but he worried it would wind up"politicizing Ukraine" and cost bipartisan support for the country.Morrison said he also had"concerns" about the Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman's judgment in regards to policy.
Williams was asked if on the call Pence gave Zelensky any advice on how to approach Trump when they met at the forthcoming United Nations General Assembly meeting. Williams said Pence told Zelensky,"President Trump would be eager about President Zelensky's progress in his reform agenda."
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