actually distilled what the acting chief of staff mulvaney said. my reaction was we've seen this act before. first they go through a long pattern of denial and then they acknowledge they did it and say it's okay and then they seek to normalize it. it's not okay and it's not normal. it's a clear violation of federal law to solicit assistance from a foreign government. but, lawrence, here's what i did immediately. i pulled out the transcript or the record of the call between president trump and president zelensky and i read it word for word. i asked myself where here is there a single instance of the president asking president zelensky to combat efforts of general corruption in ukraine? there weren't any. as a matter of fact, in the entire transcript, lawrence, the word corrupt or corruption never