america bridge and former staffer with the house intelligence committee. mika, let me start with you. it seems to me that the house intelligence committee as chaired by adam schiff's response to the unhinged eight-page letter we're not going to give you anything is okay fine, we don't need it. am i reading that right? >> i think adam schiff has a plan for how he will gather the evidence he needs and he's going to stick that to and the white house refusing to answer and provide witnesses is something he's pushing through. he has other witnesses scheduled to come friday and other people in the state department that are clearly concerned about what was happening and the president has been revealing evidence both while standing on the south lawn of the white house and releasing it in transcript form and rudy giuliani is waving it around on television. there is a lot of information out there and the president admitted the conduct in question. >> you know, my -- we saw for nine months white house very successfully stymied and bottled up house oversight committees