as being in his eyes a fundamental part of the debate process really extraordinary. >> particularly when it's off the air for sometime. there was no cultural cash shay at the moment to bring us up except to give -- for me there was a lot of criticism early on about my character that perhaps he wasn't gay enough or neutered or safe for america. we said instead of running around and sleeping with guys he was looking for one man to love turns out is a much more dangerous idea to americans than we realize. >> 15 years ago, can you believe that? >> no, no, i can't. i mean, we've seen a lot of little clips today and one of them was from the pilot, and i honestly, had a flash back, and in my body i felt like it could have been five years ago. >> let's look at the moment where will tells grace that he's gay, key moment. >> see, there is this one tincey