leader of this investigation. i will tell you that congressman conaway is widely respected. most of us even on the other side of the aisle believe that he is fair-minded. so we're all hoping that the investigation, which never really came to a close -- we've agreed on witness lists. we've agreed on how to proceed. that perhaps this investigation will now be able to proceed more the way the senate was proceeding, with a sense of, you know, both parties working together. so i hope that when we wake up tomorrow, that is reality. >> congressman, thank you. thank you for that point of information. you're absolutely right. jim himes, democrat of the state of connecticut. we've got a number of other people joining us over the course of this hour. i do want to say -- i think we're going to be hearing from malcolm nance in just a moment, which is good in terms of the counterterrorism part of this. and also the possible response from russia here. i do think it's worth restating what we know. we are talking about u.s. tomahawk missiles that have been launched here. more than 50 of them.