pretzels. >> and by 4:00 in the afternoon they said, wait a second, the quid pro quo, we're not going to fight on that ground because it's so obviously, as david freund said i could prove this to any jury any time and if i couldn't i should be disbarred that there's a quid pro quo. they retreated from that position and by late afternoon they were saying that the quo was successfully separated from the quid. but of course it wasn't. what was so fascinating, and we always have people talking about how donald trump speaks like a mobster and cohen saying everybody knows how this guys talks, right? so the president says i would like you, after he asks for the javelin, he says i would like you do this favor because our country has -- i would like you do us a favor, though. then what i find so fascinating about it, he throws out crowd strike and then he throws out hillary's emails. it's like three quick smoke screens.. and zelensky picks it up