. >> joining me now, molly john vause, host of the fast politics podcast. and -- of anything. and hugo lowell, investigative reporter for the guardian. thank you both for joining me this. morning, hugo use mental and time on capitol hill. preview, for, us what is ahead in the next two years as we enter another area with a divided congress, in the republican party bent on spectacle and publicity hearings. >> it's going to be house of representatives that is increasingly focused on investigations. not least because republicans have repeatedly broken the house in the senate, failed to create any sort of policy that they want to pursue. rebuking a center of, congress before even trying to come up with legislative power needs ahead of the midterms. then i cannot legislate, the only other thing they can do is to investigate and increasingly. clear at the kind of investigation that they want is political in nature. if you look at -- hunter biden is not a member of the government. he is just the president's son. and they want to view -- the culture of the administration. just as they