that's not a full reading of the report. that case is being closed and i've been exonerated. number two is my regret is i wasn't a better friend to ensign to keep him from making the mistake in the first place. >> given that you knew what you knew, discuss at any point counsel him to resign and to make the problem go away first of all by resigning? >> my conversations with john covered that and lots of other areas, in which i gave him advice to do the right thing and the honest thing and the open thing. >> and i'll close with this senator and move on. did the honest thing and the open thing include stepping up and resigning? >> he did. >> but only when the ethics committee closed in on him. >> i'm not going to hash back quhas old -- what is old news on john ensign. i gave him advice early on that he didn't take. i gave him advice in the middle