for his beautiful young daughters. here to help us sift through the day s developments, some of our favorite friends and reporters. joining us from the washington post, white house bureau chief phil rucker and white house reporter sung min kim is sheer here this afternoon on capitol hill for us. matt miller. former rnc chairman michael l steele. and at the table, mara, journalist and member of the new york times editorial board. and donny deutsch is back. let me start with you, you ve been covering this since we began. where are we today and where is professor ford foin terms of responding to the invitation to testify in public or in it private as i understand has been extended to her as well this afternoon? reporter: that is the major question right now because we ve been check bing in regularly with chairman chuck grassley s staff as to whether the attorneys for the woman, dr. christine ford, has responded to the judiciary committee. the committee had made two requests. one t