record in response to the -- to the text messages from the one diplomat, the other diplomat wants to say, well i think you're wrong about this. and that -- >> sondland. >> correct. and it has the feel of someone who is trying to correct the record and the first diplomat, having the feel of making sure the record is clear because the phone calls are not being recorded. that ends up getting, if you brought this to a court, to a trial, getting a little muddy. but the overwhelming sum of the evidence, direct evidence of the president making his own phone call and he has direct knowledge of this and you have this corroborating evidence of the texts, some statements being made by ukrainian officials themselves and then you have common sense. mitt romney himself who is a republican senator who has been more outspoken than others himself points out the craziness of the assertion that the only time the president of the united states seems to ever have cared about investigating somebody, it happens to be his principal rival. some reporter asked today very