"washington post" deputy political editor peter wallston joins us with the latest. peter, lawmakers say they are learning more from your reporting than they are from official briefings. what's been the biggest surprise to you so far? >> well, a couple of things. i think the same thing surprised me that surprised a lot of americans, which is just how insecure the white house actually is. that a guy can jump a fence and make it all the way in, he can run for some 20 seconds, maybe it not only in the front door of the white house as we thought until yesterday, but actually all the way through the main floor of the white house to the other end. before being tackled. and then also we learned in a report over the weekend in the "washington post" by my colleague, carol leonnig, the when somebody was able to fire shots at the white house and the damage wasn't discovered for five days. just that that can happen. somebody can drive up, park a car, fire a weapon and leave undetected. there no surveillance cameras around the white house to capture that happening. and there were