sure we had a cohesive, coherent policy. >> and as you listened to the call, did you observe whether president trump was following the talking points based on the official u.s. policy? >> counsel, the president could choose to use the talking points or not. he's the president. but they were not consistent with what i provided, yes. >> let's take a look at a couple of excerpts from this call. right after president zelensky thanked president trump for the united states support in the area of defense, president trump asks president zelensky for a favor and then raises this theory of ukrainian interference in the 2016 election. he says in the highlighted portion, "i would like you to do us a favor, though, because our country has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it. i would like you to find out