to the senate judiciary committee and cnn political correspondent sara murray with us as well. what does this hire signal to you, elliott? >> i know dan. that is a top prosecutor and a great lawyer with a long history of building investigations. so it's clear this is not just some partisan hit job, daniel is not a hack or anything like that, is that they want to get to the truth. if the public can believe that these investigations are a quest for truth and not a partisan hit job, then they'll succeed. >> his background in russian organized crime, why is that significant to note? >> because it's very hard to get information out of foreign countries. it's very hard -- investigations are hard to build as a general matter. russia is a particularly thorny place because you're dealing with mutual treaties and all kinds of things like that that complicate prosecution. so i think it's very hard to get someone -- not tied to russia but who knows how to investigate in russia. i wouldn't get into the