staff in welcoming senator alan bowles.and ersjubkine even though it is snowing outside, i am happy to give you that warm welcome. in the time we have been here, i have not noticed a single cross were between the two of you. why are you so different from everyone else in washington? when you are associated with someone, you learn about friendship. when we started this, this was a suicide mission. it still is. erskine said, what are you doing? i said, by then biden called. the first call i received was from bob dole. it took us three months to establish trust and our commission. it is stressed. that is the kind of the role in politics. it is very tarnished right now in washington. once we decided we are going, maybe they will sign it. a kind of irritated the rest of them. that is where it was. we have 14 reasons to do it. i always feel like we are the sonny and cher show. you can figure out which one i am. someone knew i would lose t