now, again, this is the tfirst person to be sentenced in what is almost a year-long investigation by the special counsel, so this is an important milestone in this investigation, brianna. >> evan perez in washington, thank you so much. i am joined now by the ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee, the top democrat in that committee, democratic congressman in new york. alex van der zwaan is the first one sentenced for lying and will be going to prison for 30 days with a $20,000 fine. what's your thoughts on this? >> he's not going to take anything from anybody, including lying, of course. i think we need to let him do his job and continue and see what happens. clearly you cannot lie and think that you can get away with something like this.