in 2016 on the republican side were not there, in part because they have their own re-electioning or some of them aren t members of the nga, they re members of the rga. governor christie was there, it was interesting. there was a governors-only luncheon saturday. i was just about to bring him up. afterwards, he took questions from reporters for 10 or 12 minutes and answered you quoted some of it. he was critical of the president on the issue of israel. he was, i thought, somewhat more evasive on some of the questions about immigration, for example. but partly what he was trying to do was say i m available, i m not hiding out. i m here to answer all your questions. do you think, governor markell, that it gets in the way of the broader goals? i really don t. i think particularly an event like this, when the governors are together, we re focused on very concrete, tangible, common sense issues. how are we going to make schools