is that why the president said "i have not been aware of it"? here is the other problem with it. how is the press going to report it? because he suggested that he only knew about it, or only knew about the report, the i.g. report. but here was the headline from "the washington post." at a press conference thursday, obama reiterated he did not know about i.r.s. targeting of conservative groups before an i.g. general report was leaked to the news media. that's not what he said. it does come down to how it's actually reported too. >>brian: i'm going to be watching when you see steve miller, who is going to be losing his job in two weeks, he is going to be grilled today on capitol hill in front of the senate finance committee. and that is going to be just the tkpwepbg. both sides -- going to be just the beginning. because both sides have a reason to feel they have to ask direct questions of the i.r.s. >>gretchen: he was not there at the beginning of the whole thing when it started. >>brian: if my time line is correct, i would say this. when he was asked, he