Fiona Hill

And yeah, your point, you're not going to wait there.

So I give this long explanation.

I've got to get to the point.

And then I've got to then choose for myself, what's the information I'm going to impart to you?

Out of the 20 things that I think are important, you know, okay, I've got 20 minutes.

Maybe I only get two minutes.

Maybe, you know, you get called out.

And somebody kind of interrupts.

Something happens.

I'm going to get one minute, two minutes.

I mean, I once remember I had to give a presentation when I was in government to Henry Kissinger for the Defence Policy Board.

And we planned bloody weeks on this thing.

PowerPoints were created.

Teams of people were brought together.

And, you know, people were practicing this.

We had all these, you know, different people there.

And I said, look, Henry Kissinger's an academic and a former professor.

And, you know, I happened to, you know, I've got to watch him in action.

He's going to like...

You know, five seconds in, if we're lucky we get that far, ask us a question and just throw off our entire presentation.