apprised of this effort to push for negotiations by the ukranians leading up to that july 25th phone call. but during his testimony, his closed door testimony, ambassador sondland tried to distance himself from the contents of that july 25th phone call. i want to read you something that he said during his closed door testimony. he said, quote, none of the brief and general call summaries i received contained any mention of burisma or former vice president biden, noreen suggested that president trump had made any kind of request of president zelensky. i heard afterwards that the july 25th, 2019, call went well in solidifying a relationship between the two leaders. therefore, he's really trying to say that he had nothing to do with any contents of that phone call. that is a disparate with what we are learning now from the "wall street journal". so another quote from what he told lawmakers behind closed