of its hacking skills to steal and weaponize information and engage in a coordinated effort to damage a particular candidate and to undermine public confidence in our democratic process. our witnesses today will help us understand how russia deployed this deluge of information in a broad 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 thisit vitally important that we do this in a credible and transparent manner as possible. 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