risks here? he has acknowledged lying to the special prosecutor, lying before and now coming before congress. the republicans can just try to beat him up in the public forum. what are the rewards for the democrats and the mueller team potentially in what he can say? >> he's certainly a complicated witness, as you mentioned. i think what democrats will be trying to find out are questions about the mueller probe. but we saw this statement from the chairman that a lot of that won't be public. some may do a follow-up session behind closed doors with the intelligence committee. i think some of the bigger questions we may get the answer to relate to the southern district of new york probe. i found it pretty interesting that they talked to the justice department and were going to wall off some of the mueller questions but didn't say about the new york probe despite the fact that it's ongoing. whose name approved the payments to michael cohen? it seems to be one of the trump children. we could find out the answer to