Ratcliffe took up where Stefanik left off:

Ratcliffe: I’d like to ask you about your earlier testimony about your Senate confirmation. And Congresswoman Stefanik had asked you how the Obama/Biden State Department had prepared you to answer questions about Burisma and Hunter Biden specifically.

You recall that?

Yovanovitch: Yes.

Ratcliffe: And she mentioned that you had been asked or been prepared for a question about Hunter Biden’s role on the board of Burisma, but I don’t think that you gave us the answer or answers that the Obama/Biden State Department prepared you to give in response to that question. Do you remember what those answers were?

Yovanovitch: Yeah. It was something along the lines of I would refer you to the vice president’s office on that.

Ratcliffe: So, did they, in the course of that, brief you about the amount of money that Hunter Biden was being paid by Burisma?

Yovanovitch: No. I—this—this wasn’t part of a briefing. I mean, I had sort of big old books with—

