ambassador taylor, when he came and testified under oath, he said during our call on september 8th, ambassador sondland tried to explain president trump is a businessman, when a businessman is about to sign a check to someone who owes him something he asks that person to pay up before signing. i argued, he said, that made no sense. ukrainians did not owe president trump anything. that's true. they owed him nothing to get the white house meeting. they owed him nothing to get their aid, and they owed nothing to him for his assistance in his campaign. i yield back. >> mr. chairman? >> gentleman yields back. what purpose? >> i move to strike the last word. >> gentleman is recognized. >> i yield to the ranking member. >> thank you. it is amazing to me that, again, the things that will come out of this markup is not the simple fact that they'll mark this up and send it to the floor. it's what they will perpetrate to try to hide the weakness of