together and making things right. we have a g zero, one without global leadership. nobody is going to step into our shoes. martha: let's talk about it in the context of this situation. first of all, what did you make of him calling into this congressional hearing yesterday and the way he has orchestrate thed wholorchestrated this whole thing? >> there is no question he wants out, and having hillary clinton our second of state in the country on the beginnings of the strategic and economic dialogue this was a time of maximum mum leverage if he was ever going to be able to grab the headlines of the international press, get romney to talk about him, this was the time to do it. and obama and hillary clearly wanted it off their plate and quickly. as a consequence the initial response was quite embarrassing. martha: it could of as you point out got even a lot worse and more tense. we seem to have come to this