ambassador sondland himself. we learned today that he chose not to put that in his opening statement. i thought mr. castor really pressed him on that. "well, why not? why wouldn't you put that conversation into your opening statement?" so i think there has been, shall i say, some questions raised about why the ambassador would not have been more complete and his opening statement. obviously the opening statement wasn't very long, very detailed. why didn't include that? everything i think we now have been reminded of is the communication that the president had with senator johnson of wisconsin. senator johnson was apparently satisfied that -- and this is late august -- that there was no conditionality. finally, i think the morning was