assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations? and then taylor also saying, as i said on the phone, i think it s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign, making it very, very clear. gordon sondla know why he was in the midst of this, he was a big campaign contributor to the president, a million dollars plus, he was the ambassador to the european union. ukraine is not part of the european union. he writes back, i believe you are incorrect about the president s intentions, the president has been clear, no quid pro quos of any kind. the president is trying to evaluate whether ukraine is going to truly adopt the transparency, et cetera, et cetera. it s clear, because there was a time lag, that this was a c.y.a. text message, kristen. there was a time lag, that is