understood an investigation into burisma should have been known to be an investigation into biden which was inappropriate. and conversations with ambassador sondland about conversations we layed to the ukrainians about the hold on the security assistance being a result of the failure to secure the investigation. i can understand why the minority does not want to now characterize them as minority requested witnesses and nonetheless they are minority requested witnesses. i now recognize myself for five minutes. i want to begin by asking you, miss cooper, about what you just informed us of so i understand the import of what you're saying. as early as july 25th, the same day president trump spoke with president zelensky on the phone and asked for this favor, the same day that president zelensky