participating in the sunday shows today who were asked about this and yet it was not really their desire to comment further. so they're in that kind of rock and a hard place, where they may want to speak more freely but they also don't want to say more than the president has publicly, trying to thread a needle of conveying support for the women who have come forward to sort of assign credibility to them without going as far as saying because of that roy moore should step aside or be out of the race. it is one of those things that has placed a very obvious awkwardness we have seen from the president through his spokesperson saying these a serious allegations and the people of alabama should make a decision and at the same time not going further than that. today mark short, who is the director of legislative affairs for the white house, so he's always interfacing with those on capitol hill for the president's agenda. so the agenda, of course, matters very much with the outcome in alabama for the senate race with the delicate