hearings is quite a bit. i mean just look at "the new york times" tax fraud investigation this week. so there's quite a bit. but, look, the russia investigation, it's sort of like a submarine operating underneath the surface, right? and, you know, every once in a while mueller shoots off a torpedo. so that's not going away. but i think you're right, don. we're trying to cover a million stories at once, and this kavanaugh story, for good reasons, overtook everything for a while there. >> susan, so let's talk about the swearing in ceremony of brett kavanaugh if we can put it up. what did you think when the president said kavanaugh was proven innocent because that's not what really happened. >> no, it's not what really happened, and it's striking that president trump has chosen to frame this story in very different terms and much more political terms, much more partisan terms than he did initially when he wasn't quite