instead focus again on farcical process arguments in my view. i'm compelled to respond to at least one of those which is this notion about the closed door depositions. because as i understand it from reading these transcripts, many minority members were present and granted equal time to question witnesses brought before the intelligence committee, the foreign affairs committee and the government oversight committee. some of those members are actually on this committee. so i struggle to understand the objections in that regard. the idea that the intelligence committee's investigation was not sufficiently transparent in my view also rings hollow because, as we know, the transcripts from those interviews, those depositions have been released. i know i've reviewed them. i suspect many of my colleagues have as well. and if you did not review those transcripts you surely watched