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pan ofrwashinon corresponden. chief white house correspondence nancy cordes, robert costa, and congressional correspondent scott mcfarlandng to all of you. great to be with you. nancy, i want to start with you. you covered the hill for a very long time. covered a lot of hearings. what is the purpose of this hearing? >> there are a couple of main goals here. first of all, john, it is important for the present time and prosterity for americans to have a set of facts of what happened led up to that day and on the day. there are some powerful politicians who stories are already changing. and we're heading the a mid-term election. it is important to remind people what actually happened. any time this nation history ever had a major trauma, a major incident, congress has been the body that takes the big 360 view of what happened so we learn what can be gleaned from that experience. imagine after 9/11 if there had been no 9/11 commission to examine not just what happened the day into buildin, b also were hatd o these different agencies not talking to one another? that led to the creation of the department of national intelligen