Cloudwatch Input Transformer returning no data

We have a CloudWatch event monitoring for changes in Route 53 and sends to an SNS topic for email notification. All of the Route53 API calls are being logged to an S3Bucket.

When setting up the "Input Transformer" to clean up the mess of JSON it spits out we are not getting any results.

The message section in the SNS email is empty. I was able to take the Full Event from CloudTrail and parse it with JQ and return the proper information.

Input Transformer;
{"zonename":"$.responseElements.hostedZone.name"}

Input Template;
"Hosted zone is <zonename>."

From the email notification;

{
"Type" : "Notification",
"MessageId" : "27346a5e-7e4a-5f4a-bda9-3e831a084b7c",
"TopicArn" : "arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:432254711293:blaketest",
"Message" : ""Hosted zone is ."",
"Timestamp" : "2019-02-13T00:17:06.434Z",
"SignatureVersion" : "1",
"Signature" : "YgCr24cPcMNoBzV6RpjDjQi74zDHcRKIFnKkKhsIPdeUienu2W5Lww7vhSJqTF7oz2D9aQ_M53voodt1VVdOO8T2Ot44qHlDKf1MibkT4/1exZGPYBLBGfgn/cg8QtjURq0Qb6/dSjRvUWLr9xk/lUSyYvBlm1hgq9bXVGvD6toP2qCuudTzgdvZ1FJ9lAEzDi8YI_xZEnATZoa6jABMBkgca56p/Ix9NZ3gkFa4CY2WoAyr2MEAqY1RrBS/DHlVT1yQDc6WpW1mWy2bDirtNwsdVR02UY788rLoTMiTsMf1z0R8osBpNMeMd7f/Pd3+4A9R9K6W6lW1qzkooPa1PQ==",
"SigningCertURL" : "https://sns.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/SimpleNotificationService-ac565b8b1a6c5d002d285f959****.pem",
"UnsubscribeURL" : "https://sns.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/?Action=Unsubscribe&SubscriptionArn=arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:********:erictest:89551bd8-76d3-458a-a93c-8377486dde19"
}

From CloudTrail Event;

{
"eventVersion": "1.05",
"userIdentity": {
"type": "IAMUser",
"principalId": "",
"arn": "arn:aws:iam:::user/blakes",
"accountId": "",
"accessKeyId": "*",
"userName": "blakes",
"sessionContext": {
"attributes": {
"mfaAuthenticated": "true",
"creationDate": "2019-02-12T18:23:55Z"
}
},
"invokedBy": "signin.amazonaws.com"
},
"eventTime": "2019-02-13T00:16:25Z",
"eventSource": "route53.amazonaws.com",
"eventName": "CreateHostedZone",
"awsRegion": "us-east-1",
"sourceIPAddress": "****",
"userAgent": "signin.amazonaws.com",
"requestParameters": {
"hostedZoneConfig": {
"privateZone": false,
"comment": "ERIC testing"
},
"callerReference": "AB354EGG09E-FC5E-046A-A6C1-8B1815375B0C",
"name": "testeric.com"
},
"responseElements": {
"changeInfo": {
"status": "PENDING",
"id": "/change/C3TJKPOO14VP6B",
"submittedAt": "Feb 13, 2019 12:16:25 AM"
},
"location": "https://route53.amazonaws.com/2013-04-01/hostedzone/Z3JK3REDKJVTQZ",
"hostedZone": {
"resourceRecordSetCount": 2,
"config": {
"privateZone": false,
"comment": "eric testing"
},
"name": "testeric.com.",
"id": "/hostedzone/Z3JKGRGERGDKJVTQZ",
"callerReference": "AB35409E-FC5EHERH-046A-A6C1-8B1815375B0C"
},
"delegationSet": {
"nameServers": [
"ns-942.awsdns-53.net",
"ns-121.awsdns-15.com",
"ns-1417.awsdns-49.org",
"ns-1927.awsdns-48.co.uk"
]
}
},
"requestID": "99c9fb95-2f24-11e9-a419-4fc3574ffweewqb5f52",
"eventID": "32bbf0ffw0e-1a95-416e-9dd5-ae2eec971b41",
"eventType": "AwsApiCall",
"apiVersion": "2013-04-01",
"recipientAccountId": "*****"
}

Thank you,

Let me know if any additional information is needed.