>> in some ways it is a phony distinction. but in some ways it isn't. that's why we're litigating and fighting over it. after '99 bain made some investments in certain companies that were involved in outsourcing jobs to china, india, and mexico. and so mitt romney is trying to basically claim that he wasn't involved in those sort of decisions. even though he still owned the company, even though he still benefited from that company, and even though he put the company on that path, he's trying to separate himself from those particular deals and there were some bankruptcies, too, in companies that happened after that stage. that's why he's trying to make february 1999 this bright line. but i had a story out just yesterday, michael, that had bain in '98 when romney was the head of it investing in a chinese manufacturing company that was making money off u.s. companies outsourcing jobs to them. so even prior to this '99 bright line, there are lots of problems