balloon and the ongoing situation in ukraine with russia. all of these set the table for what's likely to be a wide ranging hearing, but again, senators have even prepped us for this. the idea that there's probably not going to be a lot of information that's going to come out, at least not in the open public portion of this hearing, in large part because we even know in recent weeks, these intel officials in bipartisan fashion have been trying to talk with people like the director of national intelligence and others to get more information on things like the classified documents found at mar-a-lago and at biden's offices, and they have not been very good or not been very effective at getting that information in large part because the dni is trying to be tight-lipped about it because of the ongoing special counsel meeting. those are meetings going on behind closed doors. you've got to imagine it's a continued theme of being tight-lipped when they're actually in public here. but again, once they move into