right out to capitol hill, garrett haake, i was having a conversation and everything went awry, tracking the defense secretary james mattis, at capitol hill for meetings. as we were talking, plmattis ca out of john mccain's office, started talking. you went and chatted with him and we had to say good-bye to you. what did you get? >> reporter: right. we expected it to be a much longer meeting with him and senator mccain essentially covering more about the niger investigation under way. instead probably about a seven-minute meeting in mccain's office before the two of them came out together to take questions. some of which i think you saw. he's now, secretary mattis, is down the hall behind me in lindsey graham's office, close friends with mccain and more importantly another senior member of the armed services committee. work to be done there.