today as fairly technical but important to understand how the political machinations here worked within the actual federal bureaucracy here. how things actually get done in washington. we'll learn more when his full transcript is released. unlike so many of these other witnesses, he did not release any kind of opening statement. we're told he essentially sat down and told members of congress, how can i help? >> all right. msnbc's garrett haake on capitol hill for us with the wreakibrea news today. garrett, thank you so much for that. let's go to our panel now. andrew, political congressional report. david jolly, former republican congressman from florida. chris alllou, former assistant president obama. andrew, you were in many of those pieces of video. we saw you in the background there in the hearing room. being able to listen to what was said. before we get to that and what has happened, let's start with the transcripts. and what we're learning and garrett did a great job of sort of laying out, you know, two different characters and a narrative that the democrats