the house intelligence committee and importantly here, former chief of staff to ana eshoo who was the first member of congress who dr. ford communicated with about her sexual assault charges. and also joining us is congressional scholar norm orstein. and wendy sherman, i want to go to you first. very important they make in their letter to chuck grassly, that the majority of republicans in this committee are intent on delivering a more unfair hearing this time than they did for anita hill. >> right, it was one the most dismiss weekends of my life, lawrence, and this appears to be worse. the republicans believe they were holding a trial, and they put anita hill on trial. i actually agree with you. i think that in this case dr. ford should go first, but that's really for her negotiations so that in fact she can lay the