pieden pi bidens. and if you think about what's happened, if the president takes an perception from congress that we send to a besieged ally resisting russian aggression and then he pins all these restrictions to it, that is thwarting the will of congress. he's trying to usurp the legislative power and that is an absolute violation of the separation of powers. >> congresswoman, this stuck out to me and it's one of it themes i've noted here is despite the fact that at times the president and his allies seem to want to make the argument it's perfectly fine to do this, the behavior of the people involved seems to indicate they recognized something foul was afoot, that they were up to no good themselves, and i want to read this from the opening statement from taylor. i sensed something odd when ambassador sondland told me on june 28th he did not wish to include most of the regular interagency participate wants in a call planned later that day.