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 212 Id. at 18.

213 Id.

214 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 61.

215 Vindman-Williams Hearing Tr. at 26.

216 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 61.

217 Vindman-Williams Hearing Tr. at 26.

218 Id.

219 Id.; David Holmes separately testified that Lt. Col. Vindman “made a general point about the importance of Ukraine to our national security, and he said it's very important that the Zelensky administration stay out of U.S. domestic politics.” Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 61.

220 Volker Transcribed Interview Tr. at 30.

221 Id. at 29-30.

222 Kent Dep. Tr. at 193.

223 Anderson Dep. Tr. at 15, 54. Ambassador Sondland testified that he did not specifically recall who arranged the May 23 meeting and conjectured that “either Rick Perry or I reached out to someone at the NSC saying: Doesn’t the President want a briefing about the inauguration. And I think—I think it was Perry, if I recall correctly, that got it nailed down.” Sondland Dep. Tr. at 87.

224 Volker Transcribed Interview Tr. at 29, 303; Vindman Dep. Tr. at 168.

225 Hill Dep. Tr. at 311.

226 Id. at 308.

227 Id.

228 Id. at 309-310.

229 Id.

230 Id.

231 Nunes Ally Kash Patel Who Fought Russia Probe Gets Senior White House National Security Job, The Daily Beast (July 31, 2019) (online at www.thedailybeast.com/kash-patel-devin-nunes-ally-who-fought-russia-probe-gets-senior-white-house-national-security-job).

232 Volker Transcribed Interview Tr. at 304.

233 Sondland Dep. Tr. at 25.

234 Id.

235 Volker Transcribed Interview Tr. at 304.

236 Sondland Dep. Tr. at 337; Volker Transcribed Interview Tr. at 304; Hill Dep. Tr. at 320-321 (describing Volker’s readout); Croft Dep. Tr. at 90 (describing Volker’s readout); Anderson Dep. Tr. at 57 (describing Volker’s readout).

237 Volker Transcribed Interview Tr. at 305.

238 Id.

239 Sondland Dep. Tr. at 62; Volker Transcribed Interview Tr. 305; Morrison-Volker Hearing Tr. at 40.

240 Sondland Hearing Tr. at 71.

241 Sondland Dep. Tr. at 26. See also id. at 87-90.

242 Morrison-Volker Hearing Tr. at 131.