volker specifically citing those two instances and the public commitment are significant? well, sure. i mean what we re getting here is a shift in the republican position. before they were saying no quid pro quo. now their position is there was a quid pro quo and it was perfectly valid and legitimate and that s in effect their defense. we know that this was much bigger than a quid pro quo, which implies something kind of consenting yal. it was a shakedown against the ukrainian government. it was totally coercive brought to bear on them in order to make them cough up the two things they wanted from president zelensky. they wanted confirmation of their paranoid discredited conspiracy theory about the 2016 election and then they wanted information about burisma and the bidens. of course no legitimate law enforcement inquiry or investigation had come anywhere near to verifying any of these things. that s why they had to apply