Kurt Volker: ‘I Did Not See the Public Statement as a Condition for the White House Meeting’

‘When it became clear later that we were not able to agree on an agreement that the Ukrainians were comfortable with, I agreed with Ukraine just to drop it, it’s not worth it’

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GOLDMAN: "I understand that. Is it your testimony that based on the text that you wrote linking the investigations and the 2016 election on July 25th to the White House meeting, you’re saying that by this point in August with this back and forth that you were unaware that this public statement was a condition for the White House meeting?"

VOLKER: "I wouldn’t have called it a condition. It’s a nuance, I guess, but I viewed it as very helpful if we could get this done, it would help improve the perception that President Trump and others had and then we would get the date for a meeting. If we didn’t have a statement, I wasn't giving up and thinking that we'll never get a meeting."

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