he called the hearing, quote, rigged on twitter this morning. so our big question today is, what could congress learn from trump's former right-hand woman? joining me now, nbc news correspondent kelly o'donnell. she is live across capitol hill from here. daily beast politics reporter and msnbc contributor betsy woodruff and law fair editor in chief and msnbc law analyst, ben witt wittes. thank you all for being here. kelly, let's start with what we know so far about how today has gone. it sounds like democrats are pretty incredulous about the questions that the white house has refused to allow her to answer, apparently even intervening when they asked her to simply say where her office was in the white house. >> yes, one of the congressmen we talked to said that was a real question and of course, that would lead to the proximity she had to the president and that was among the many questions where white house lawyers raised the objection and she did not answer that. we do know that we're now beyond