that this will all have in the midterm elections? >> well, i mean, i don't disagree. people who feel strongly on both sides are going to go vote anyway. people in the middle probably don't care as much. that doesn't mean that just because it's not politically important in the midterms it's politically important to the country and to a democratic republic and to our system of government that when there is this sort of an attack on the nation's capitol, we figure out some way to get to the bottom of it. i don't think it's fair to blame pelosi or the democrats and say that they're putting forward a partisan committee. look, i know kevin, you know kevin. if he wanted to put forward a sensible set of republicans to be part of the process, he could have done so. he put forward people who are implicated in the plot itself, and those are rejected. as they should have been rejected. >> mike, we're going to leave it there. didn't mean to cut you off. >> wasn't trying to filibuster you, mike. >> mike, van, i didn't mean to cut you both off. we're going to go to break. i thank you for the heated