mr. reuben i hope you thank mr. -- after the hearing for giving you a little bit of a break. i'm going to ask you a series of questions now to follow up with the chairman about the processes. we keep talking about this 40,000 documents, i want to get a better perspective from you. is that the universe of documents? is that your position that 40,000 is it? or is 40,000 one quarter or one-half? can you give us an idea of what this universe of documents looks like like? >> thank you, ma'am. the 40,000 is the accumulation of two plus years of searching, of gathering of documents from across the entire state department. we have provided these, we provided -- >> right. i'm trying to get an idea of in the entire universe of documents that we have yet to receive, does mr. gaudy's we are looking for all what portion of that do the 40,000 because 40,000 is is a lot of documents, so where does that fit? >> it's 40,000 pages of documents, i said 40,000 documents, i meant to say 40,000 pages of documents. that is a significant amount. that is what we have found. what we have searched for

mr. reuben, i thought that was an easy layup. think it was an easy thing to think, no, of course this is serious and not partisan and let's get to it. i find it shocking that you can't give a straight answer to that simple question and you're not going to give it to me, so let's move on. i find myself oftentimes -- language up here, state department and you're in the business of understanding foreign language and you have misinterpreted the language -- because to come in here and to sort of claim that we are, you're gratified that your cooperation, let me translate for you. he's not pleased with your cooperation, he durant think this is going well and he thinks you're part of the problem. now, you claimed in your original testimony, in this role, i serve as chief liaison to the house, ensuring foreign policy issues, et cetera. so, your testimony is that you're responsible, right? >> that i am the chief liaison that the state department has a significant number of people working on a significant number of issues. in my job, i conv