saying they are trying to get more than just what berasso said was excused from the secretary of state yesterday. we re also learning that the committee wanted to hear from the defense secretary today. but that they were rebuffed and he will not attend this hearing today andin steted they were trg to determine what has happening on ground and the state department and instead they ll zwruf just hear from the secretary of state. that frustrating some going into the meeting. and one of the things that the democrats are very careful of. even though they have tough questions, they want to make it clear this wasn t just the biden administration handling afghanistan. this is 20 years of a conflict in this country and as one aide put it to me, they re not going to let the republicans put this entire conflict at the feet of the biden administration. erica and jim. lauren fox, thank you. we re seeing secretary blinken