fact president bush who was in office when mitt romney wrote the editorial in "the new york times" in november of 2008 also decided they needing the bridge loan. what you have is romney trying to go after both ends of that formulation. not easy to pull that off. >> one of the things that's still an open question about this reiteration of the romney campaign is whether or not they acknowledge previous statements by the candidate that seem to contradict current statements or whether they retend older things went away. whether they're trying the etch a sketch thing. on the bin laden thing, do they wrangle at all with the fact that mr. romney was asked would you overrule the leadership in pakistan or go behind their back and get bin laden without notifying pakistan? he said, absolutely not, i wouldn't do that, that would be a horrible mistake. do they wrangle with that at all or hope it's lost? >> they wrangle with it a little bit because one of the things romney said at the time when he was going after barack obama as hillary clinton was, as you