the kremlin made effective use of its hacking skills to steal and weaponize information and engage in a coordinated effort to damage a particularly candidate and to undermine public confidence in our democratic process. our witnesses today will help us to understand how russia deployed this deluge of disinformation in a broader attempt to undermine america's strength and leadership throughout the world. we simply must, and we will, get this right. the chairman and i agree it is vitally important that we do this as a credible, bipartisan, and transparent manner as possible. as was said yesterday at our press conference, chairman burr and i trust each other, and equally important, we trust our colleagues on this committee that we are going to move together and we're going to get to the bottom of this and do it