everything up to the american people. be transparent with them and they have a right to soo this. what's happening is you have a secret proceeding that then we tried in the court of public opinion. we talk about it on tv on the evidence that we don't have because we weren't in the room. and that's wrong. if we're going to talk about it on tv, we're going to leak evidence out. let's let the american people see it for themselves instead of the bits and pieces that have been brought to us. that's not the right way we do things in america. >> is 15 pages of the opening statement unedited for the american public to see on cnn.com. congressman dent? >> again, the president of the united states seems to be advancing vladimir putin's foreign policy interests. he never believed in this policy providing a lethal military assistance to the ukrainians. even though sean and i both did and president obama didn't want to do it either. president didn't support it. he's taking putin's side on that issue. he's doing the same thing with the kurds. by abandoning the kurds.