we learned that u.s. officials were working together with rudy giuliani to draft a statement that the ukrainian government was going to put out, saying they would investigate joe biden. it wasn't good enough to say they will investigate corruption, which the president pretends that's what he's interested in. they had to name burisma specifically. sondland took five hours to respond to that text. he then comes back after bill taylor said, twice, "we don't exchange assistance --dash >> melissa: i think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign." one reason he would take hours to respond to it, doesn't feel like a set up? one of those situations where you say, "gosh, do you feel bad about the fact he murdered that person last night?" in a text. it just sounds -- i don't know. it's a little bit difficult to believe. the other point i would say, you would have to prove that he has