against the president squarely fits a very popular, very highly used federal corruption statute that basically says this -- if you're a public official and you're seeking something of value in return for a promise of an official act by you, you've violated the law. so, the thing of value would be seeking an investigation of your political opponent, biden or his son. the public -- the official act you could hand them in return for that personal favor would be $250 million in military aid. it doesn't have to be a direct cited quid pro quo. it could be inferred. it could be implied by trump and inferred by the ukrainian. so that's a criminal problem that the president's facing. now let's look at the general counterintelligence problem. when you seek that kind of personal favor from a foreign leader, you are essentially