july 25th, there's talk about a drug cocktail or something. no one ever said that to me by phone, by text, by email. i don't remember anybody sounding any alarm bell because of course had someone mentioned it, i would have sat up and taken notice. everyone's hair was on fire but no one decided to talk to us. >> when you talk in your statement about in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid, i later came to believe, it was your speculation, it was your guess, that the resumption of security aid wouldn'tur occur until ther was a public statement from ukraine committing to investigations of 2016. i believe you said at this point you believed everyone, everyone knew this; is that correct? >> i think once that politico article broke, it started making