Ideas, the london policy think tank. joining us from london. good to have you with us. good morning. so, what we re learning from the testimony of that career diplomat george kent that the state department rejected to rudy giuliani trying to get visas for a ukrainian prosecutor. and that mr. giuliani s personal went around state and never got that visa. the question, how damning is this, in your view, on top of all of the other testimony, the evidence, the text messages that have come to bear? it s damning, but it s hard to keep track of all of the different threads of this story, particularly because the not the transcript, but the memorandum that the white house released initially by way of trying to explain the faction was already so damning, filling in the back story is helpful, it s particularly helpful for the house committees that are working on this impeachment inquiry. but it s slightly like being in