hearing on the 2016 election and the doj and fbi's actions surrounding it to begin. the ranking democrat on the committee jerry nather of new york speaking right now. in a moment, we'll hear the opening statements of rod rosenstein, the deputy ag, fbi director christopher wray, we'll bring those to you in full live as soon as they begin. meantime, the former co-president of fox news is about to become a senior member of president trump's administration. a source tells cnn bill shine, see him there, is expected to be named the deputy chief of staff in charge of communications. he stepped down from his role at fox last year after he was criticized for the way he handled sexual harassment claims at the network. making this, i think, even more interesting is the road that sean hannity has in many ways paved, the biggest star at fox news, has paved for bill shine to the white house. >> oh, definitely. this is as close as you can get to almost sean hannity himself being in a major role in the