earlier today when he came in and -- we heard he apologized for going to the white house before coming to you. >> this is true. he did apologize, to his credit. i think it was appropriate. historically both the chair and ranking members have worked together in a very -- in a very positive way and very meaningful way. and in terms of protocol, typically the chairman would notify the ranking member on either side of the aisle, if it were a democratic chair, he would notify the republican ranking. and so i give him credit for acknowledging the error because i think you can't find a finer ranking member than adam schiff. and it was the appropriate thing to do. the unfortunate part of all of this is that in a society where the electorate is already disillusioned, there's so much distrust of the bureaucracy, of elected officials, of administration, this doesn't help matters, especially as we're dealing with unearthing