for more on all of this, i'm joined by chris jansing. chris, first of all, has the white house reacted at all this to many measure? >> reporter: well, good morning, krais. they say they're not going to react specifically to any conversations which amount to negotiations in a sense. with members of congress. i think a couple of significant things. one is that those conversations, those phone calls from the president and from other high level administration officials have been ongoing. and i also think that they're recognizing that they still have some questions to answer, and you're going to hear some of that today with the hearings that is the start of a hearing of high skeptives. the folks that believe this doesn't go high enough and those concerned after ten years of war this is the beginning of a slippery slope. as you mentioned, there are a number of provisions including the 15-day notice and the updates every 90 days. a number of other provisions are