colonel vindman and miss williams, thank you. i'm going to ask some questions that go through the background. what's come out during this process is that we had two ukraine policyies. one was bipartisan and long-standing. one was to assist itself which had freed itself from the corruption of russia. is that a fair statement? >> i think that's a fair characterization. >> and to give folks pa reminder of the extent of corruption. by the way, a legacy of putin's russia is that your understanding when your prior president, mr. yanukovych, fled to russia, into the arms of mr. putin, he took with him $30