right now. you can see just how intense it is here. how incredibly crowded it is. this is -- you can see beyond those cameras. that is the line for the public that has been stretching around the corner. as you can imagine this is kind of a hot ticket, if you will, when it comes to capitol hill. but as far as the panel is concerned, if you remember back when it was put together, the speaker decided to do it. democrats, they considered boycotting this panel. but now they are here and they feel like they really have to defend hillary clinton and the process itself. but on the republican side i have been speaking to a couple of the republican members on the committee. and what they insist is that by the end of the day what we are going to see is a lot less political than what you just played from a couple of republicans who are not on this committee. that they have been working intensely and intensively on gathering research, on investigations for the past so