surprise to officials from washington all the way to ukraine because the president had been so adamant for months on sitting on this aid and holding this money, john. >> so if you look at the calendar for september, it is so jam packed with these extraordinary developments. the president released the aid to ukraine the day after he fired john bolton, his national security adviser. so did one have anything to do with the other? >> this is obviously one of the questions investigators are going to be asking, if they can get john bolton in front of them. we don't have a clear answer to that at this point, but we do know that the timing is certainly interesting. we know that throughout this john bolton had been saying ukraine should get the money. he was adamant this money should be released and he was one of the people pressuring the president as well as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle saying what is the hold up here? just release these funds. >> and when we talk about time and this extraordinary calendar, there is an aspect that has