tangentially paying attention, it makes sense on the surface, right? the call happened on july 25th. she wasn t ambassador then. but having the president of the united states, who we ve been told all week long isn t going to pay attention to these hearings thinks they re a side show, doesn t think this matters. target yovanovitch while she was on the stand entirely blow up the argument that she does not matter. and it threw all the republicans and their questioning off their talking points. you saw the entire second half of the afternoon. and by the way, this is well, let me pause you there, garrett. yep. let me pause you. instead of you stating it, let s play. we put together a montage of what the republicans had to do this afternoon playing cleanup for the president. take a listen. love it. i wanted to thank you for your 30 years of public service. i for one want to thank you so very much for a long service, exemplary service for to our country and on behalf of our na