discuss ukraine because everybody was spinning their wheels on greenland. quote, i think this was also about the time of the greenland question, about purchasing greenland, which took up a lot of energy in the nsc. question: okay. that's disturbing for a whole different reason. answer: different story, different story. and here's where things get really strange. when the president got his ego bruised by the whole greenland thing and canceled his planned visit to denmark and poland, he sent the vice president, mike pence, in his place. pence met with ukraine's president in warsaw on september 1st, and the u.n. ambassador gordon sondland talked privately to a ukrainian aide right after that meeting telling him that ukraine wouldn't get $400 million in money, military aid, until they ponied up and