off on a request of this kind. to be clear, when i say request of this kind, there aren't many requests that come down from the united states saying, hey, i would like to extort a foreign power to interfere in upcoming elections. but the legal manner in which this hold was actually placed, that is done by a career official. it is a ministerial action that deals with how funding is meted out over the course of time. a political step-in raises serious questions. what exactly was going on? why couldn't they justify what they were trying to do? it speaks to the fact that there was underlying corruption there. this wasn't for political reasons. that is part of the broader extortion campaign. >> it is something you wrote about for just security, the website. talking about the tools that congress has to dig into this and get an understanding of what's been happening here. now that you have seen him testify, where this investigation is headed, is it doing all it can or are there