i appreciate it. joining me now cnn's senior political analyst ron brownstein and kirsten powers and former chief strategist to the romney presidential campaign stewart stevens. they always have perfect grammar. they do everything correctly. good evening to all of you. let's start with you. let's start with the hannity text and the committee wanting more information from him. so this is what he was saying behind the scenes not to his audience. what do you think of this? >> i think the problem we have is we fall back on pleasing about this under the -- thinking about this under the way our sort of political societal structure has existed before which isn't the right one. hannity is not a journalist. fox is not a news outlet. fox are propagandists. the history of how this works is clear. you can look at germany, hungary, venezuela. it is a pattern here and we have to just accept that the republican party is an