thank you. you had a meeting with elena kagan. you described her as delightful. what can you tell us about the meeting? it was a lot of fun. we had practice long discussion just the two of us. i didn t press her to make commitments on any issue that talked about her history and her approach to things. i thought it was a good discussion. let me ask you, there has been criticism of her that she doesn t have enough experience. she hasn t been a judge and some folks are turning that around and saying, well, republicans didn t have a problem when harriette mires was nominated and they re comparing their experience levels. how do you respond? compared to sotomayor, her experience level is exceedingly thin. i said at the very beginning, sotomayor had an excellent background, private practice, a prosecutor, atrial judge and an appellate judge. that was president obama s first nomination. the harriette miers had 25 years of law practice and a big firm, full time practice, a leader in