so a lot of people might look at this and say well, this deal stunk. i don't blame the president for wanting them investigated, never mind the fact that biden was one of the president's challengers for the white house. i think it was inappropriate for him to raise it on that call with ukraine, but a lot of people might look at it and say not a bad idea. the second thing, of course, is this. yes, the president at times seem to condition eight on that and other times, he did not. but let's assume for the sake of discussion here that the aide had continued to be withheld and russia amounted a devastating attack on ukraine. one that would have been greatly dollars worth of american aid been denied. that would've put this in a different light. nothing like that happen, the aide indeed was provided and prior to that, javelin missiles was the obama administration had consistently refused to provide had been provided by the trump administration and a number of