dick durbin of illinois. good to have you with us. >> good morning to be with you, willie. >> i'm not going to ask you about yourustrated in that briefing. you said gina haskell was not in there. >> that she should have been in there. obviously the cia director. you said that pompeo and mattis told you all that she was not there at the direction of the white house. >> that's right. >> the cia press secretary came out afterward and said the notion that anyone told director haskell not to attend today's briefing is false. what exactly did secretary pompeo tell you all in that room? >> that hearing yesterday the closed door hearing was a disaster. first, secretary of state pompeo puts an article in the "wall street journal" and mocks members of the congress and the saudi regime and said we are caterwalling, i had to look up the wall, shrieking of cats, caterwalling. he and secretary mattis show up at this closed-door meeting. there is an empty chair. the question was asked by democrats and republicans, the person who is ahead of our intelligence agency should tell us what they found about this. we were told, well,