anybody, and you interpret that as "don't talk to my boss, but i'm gonna go talk to someone that we can't even ask you if that individual is." >> that is incorrect. >> i just read what you said. "i shouldn't talk to any of the people." >> the time of the gentleman has expired. >> i'm sorry, mr. chairman, that sequence is not the way it played out. >> please, let the colonel answer. speak of the sequence played out where immediately afterwards i expressed my concerns, i did my coordination function, mr. eisenberg circle background and told me how to talk to anybody else. in that period of time i did not manage to -- >> so that's what happened. that's when he talked to someone. >> that's right. >> think you, mr. chairman. colonel vindman, let's go back to that pair of meetings on jul. about scrambled eggs office and down in the boardroom, were you witnessed ambassador sondland informed the ukrainian officials that, as a prerequisite, "ukrainians would have to deliver an investigation into the bidens."