nevertheless, nancy pelosi wasted no time claiming republican hypocrisy exists in this interview about buzzfeed. it s really interesting right soon on the heels that date, on the heels of the republicans voting to make sure everybody that had access to food stamps was drug tested, it s just is like what? to get food stamps you have to be drug tested? and so i hope that it will humanize, shall we say, their thinking. nbc s pete williams was in court and he joins us now from our washington bureau. pete, i just want to point out that the congressman was one of the lawmakers who voted for drug testing for food stamp recipients so i believe that was the type of connection that nancy pelosi was trying to make there. but you were in the courtroom. explain how this all went down. well, he did plead guilty today and he got the same sentence that most defendants get for a first offense. he got a year s probation, so that means if there are no further violation, this will be removed from hi