the white house called up the justice department and said forget about this. he could have i think a more centrist second year than a lot of my conservative friends think. i'm not so sure that he couldn't move awkwardly and incrementally. we could look up fro two months from now and it could be a different obama administration than it seemed to be two months ago. >> it will be. i think he always planned to move to have a more centrist second year. focus on the deficit. certainly less big tough votes for his party to take in advantage. at the beginning of the obama administration all of us asked the question which is we were going to test the thesis of how much congress could handle because he was giving them more than any other congress has been asked to do. financial reregulation, cap and trade, healthcare. the answer is not it this much. i think that that is one thing that he has learned. it was too much for congress to do. the biggest -- the biggest