and that's the only thing i can think trying to piece all this together. >> if you were still the chair of the intelligence committee would i just blow off the questions from the white house or the requests from the white house to investigate this? >> this would be the quickest part of any investigation, you haul in the fbi director, you haul in the national clandestine service folks and the criminal side of people who go through the process of applying for these warrants. and then you haul in the doj people responsible for the same thing, and you ask the question, i think you would have an answer probably within 30 minutes. this is not something that you can -- this is going to linger on for very long if the investigators are doing their job. >> jen, as somebody who was up until a month and a half ago sat in the white house directing communication strategy, just -- i know you said you are not surprised. but what do you make of what we've seen never mind the last four or five weeks but in the last two or three days?