and staff members will be in this briefing tomorrow and we ll see how this affects the impeachment investigation going forward, kate. yeah. fascinating how this is playing out today. thank you so much, manu. i really appreciate it. out front now is jamie ras kkin and he s a member of the oversight as well as judiciary committee. what do you know about this briefing or meeting with the state department s ig? because we are told it will include staffers from your committee. yeah. i don t know anything about it other than it s happening, and it appears to be in response to the letter that secretary pompeo sent to congress, and that lettere has some kind of pr he appears to think that he can stop the witnesses from coming in to testify. the humorous thing about it is that he s posing now as the great defender of the professionals in the state department when apparently, he