if any between trump advisers and russia. although with much less public drama. senator james lankford joins us, thank you for being with us. i want to talk about the work your committee is doing. just on sally rates. her attorneys send a letter friday saying she's going to be testifying, speaking about subjects related to michael flynn. doesn't think executive privilege applies because of the conversations have been talked about publically. then the hearing is canceled. do you think that is a coincidence? >> that i don't know. owns what's happening on the house side of it, they've cleared a bunch of their schedule this week. obviously all the controversy swirling around chairman nunes right now is a distraction. >> it seems like they're not -- we had congressman heinz, who's on the committee, who said they're not even having regular meetings now. >> that's too bad. when you deal with intelligence information, that's current, that's active. the intelligence committee meets multiple times a week. we have a lot of issues that we