floor today to rebut those claims. a short time ago my colleague andrea mitchell conducted a discussion with one of the men at the center of this controversy, cia director john brennan. here s his response, both to the report and to charges of hacking. we are not trying at all to prevent its release. as far as the allegations of, you know, cia hacking into, you know, senate commuters, nothing could be further from the truth. we wouldn t do that. that s just beyond the you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we would do. moments ago white house press secretary jay carney was asked several times about this controversy. and carney says president obama has, quote, great confidence in director brennan. michael mcauliffe, senior congressional correspondent for the huffington post and was at today s hearing. give us a context of what was going on in that hearing room, and did anybody know that this was coming before dianne feinstein took to the floor? well, there are some peo