An msnbc legal analyst. josh lederman, a reporter for nbc news. josh, you've covered this story from the very beginning. what do you think, will the white house send some lawyers to next week's hearing or will they go by what has been a lot of republicans' position, it only legitimizes a process they believe is a sham? >> i think it's pretty unlikely that they will send counsel to this hearing. as you were just saying, they don't want to legitimize this and show it's actually a process that has some credibility when their main argument against this the entire time has not been on the substance...