would have mandated certain things that would have kept the process just, pa and fair. whatever suggestions we had made were dismissed. an affirmative representations were made that we would eventually have equal access and, unfortunately, for the first several weeks of the investigation, we were kept totally out of the loop. my information that the republicans on the committee received was solely through the press and through msnbc the record. >> and also, i do want to talk about "the star ledger" which is reporting the co-chair and loretta weinberg wrote a letter back to the committee saying all members will have the access to dojts. where does it stand now? >> i have to say that since the -- it wasn't just one let their we wrote. there were a series of several letters we did right. since those letters, the process has changed tremendously.