here in the commission today is my chief of staff, sara hawkins and present senior investigator susan gray, in case issues come up during the meeting that we need to talk about. i will also acknowledge that president of the board malia cohen is here in the audience. thank you for being here. and that's all i have. >> vice-president mazzucco: thank you, director henderson. question for you -- how many investigators do we intend to hire? how many cases are investigator do we have now? and what are our best practices? >> i think what you are referring to is a report a couple years ago because we were out of compliance because the investigators had too many cases on their caseload. per agreement from a review that was done indicating that investigators shouldn't have more than 16 -- i was going to say 17. 16 cases per their caseload. with the new investigators, as you know when i started in july, the first thing i did was start hiring to bring people into the pipeline. i think the caseloads are now -- [inaudible] thank you. i don't know if everyone could hear that. but they were at 30 per inve

susan glasser. we also have cnn senior diplomatic correspondent michelle kosinski and diplomatic editor nick robertson. michelle, there's a lot of grayo this. they picked this very august place, helsinki, rich with history with big meetings but we didn't know that much. we now have word that at least we know both have a translator. and then there were reasons offered for why it was so important for trump to be alone with putin. >> we wouldn't have a cliff hanger. we wouldn't have suspense and surprise if they gave out a lot of information. i think sometimes that is the way the white house sees it or at least that's the way president trump sees it. they have emphasized over and over again the white house and state department that this is not an agenda here. they've set no set agenda. they want to talk things through. first of all president trump goes back to his laundry list of here's all the things we can talk about, con speck uously absent is the attack on democracy by hacking the election. list of other things including china and also that he's fired up lately on nuclear talks on trying to extend the start treaty with russia. he se