ambassador. discussions for them to pursue investigation, the double medics that are also at the table with the foreign service officer based in kiev. current and former u.s. officials say somnolent's use of a cell phone to speak with anyone in the u.s. government back home about sensitive matters let alone the president would be a significant breach of communication security. those are all interesting points to something we're going to hear in the sondland testimony, but why are we hearing about it just now? let's bring in our panel, "washington post" columnist marc theissen. susan for sure, chief congressional correspondent for the "washington examiner" ," and steve clemons, editor at large for the hill. i mean, it's fascinating and we will see what sondland says. obviously building up to that testimony. but it's july 26th, this was last week that taylor finds out about it. isn't that a little weird? >> maybe they were saving up for the big reveal and the hearing yesterday, but look, that was their big news, they are in big trouble. because the reality is we