met with mr. cohen for hours before testimony or that he met with mr. simson from gps. this is a pattern like i said. we were hoping to hear from the ambassador today but understand why the administration and state department has chosen to say look, if it will be this kind of process. if you selectively leak text messages, 67 pages of text messages we had. they take a handful and release to all of you and not give the full context and not release the transcript, we understand why they made this decision at this moment. i'm going to let some of my -- >> ambassador sondland said he is disappointed he wasn't allowed to attend the deposition today. >> i said the same thing. we wish he would have been able to testify but understand why the administration made the decision they did. when you have a chairman release certain parts of what was said in a closed-door