you know, i think to eugene's point, the president has an enormous mega phone through social media and through the distraction that you so expertly cataloged at the beginning of the program. every single day, every moment of every single day we in the media and the american people by consuming all of this are not focussing on one thing for an extended period of time. and he does it so expertly and the white house media machine and the president's own instincts here, we had the wonderful return negotiated by bob corker and oren hatch and others from utah of a mormon missionary who had been in jail with his wife in venezuela in a hideous situation for two years. it's a great moment. they came right to the oval office for a photo opportunity on saturday night. so the president was embracing this as i was at andrew's air force base when the korean detainees arrived at 4:00 in the morning. they don't go to bethesda naval