up as badly as it has and fighting back with the argument that you don t leave your soldiers behind on pt battlefield and those parents deserve to have their son returned. it s an emotional argument but not a legal argument. what congress is saying and this includes democrats as you know as well as republicans, that there is a legal obligation to notify congress 30 days in advance. and what congress is also saying to the president s argument, they had to move quickly, that security was very important, this was a tense moment and they had to deal with it delicately. they would say and they have said we knew about the bin laden raid, which was a higher security priority and much more certain to need to avoid leaks. they night about that for months in advance and in fact for days before hand. they were notified of that raid, why not of this exchange. andrea, the other big issue