a potential criminal case with the assistant he is accused of groping that may play out in albany, but if it is a civil case, even if somebody won the judgment, there is a political calculation on top of that. and if his closest supporters in the new york's assembly do not defect regardless of the national stage, could he at least hang on to office? maybe not win reelection, but at least hang on to office? >> i think he could, john. i'm not saying that's a good thing, but trying to gauge reality and take it a step further, this does not even rise to the level of a civil finding. what the attorney general said was her understanding of her job here was to do an investigation where she brought in the two highly respected outside investigators to do, and then basically published all of her findings which litigators nor the milling he would not do. they confined themselves to what they can prove in court, but there is no civil liability here. and as you point out, this does