Rep. Sean Casten

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Thank you.

And it's nice to it's nice to be recognized for not doing this job just so that I can become an influencer.

He had no reason to leave other than Bob's big boy's body double, by the way.

Well, so I have a more

I have maybe a more boy scouted view of Congress.

I think hearings have always been really important.

They're places to get information.

It's also not lost that in the age we're in, for better or for worse, they're all on TV.

And so there is always going to be some theater.

But I think that there's something that triggers human beings to behave differently when they know what cameras are.

The only tool you really have in the minority is to move public opinion.

And so there is a value in the televised hearings, the extent that you can inject something in.

I mean, look, as you said, I'm on your show today because I injected something into the public conversation about what was going on in Venezuela and some of the legal authority.

That wouldn't have happened if this was a closed-door hearing.

And so there's a value within that.

Okay?

Well, I mean, I'll tell you candidly, because there was a political reporter who was asking all of us the day before, what are you going to ask percent?

And I said, what I know is that he is going to be...

filled with talking points from the Trump administration.