realities in the country. for so many of these people writing in that was the impetus to write. and in stephon s case his mother had been unemployed for a very long time. her unemployment benefits had run out. she was watching this very channel, c-span, watching session of congress, trying to see if her benefits would be extended, if there was any way she was going to be able to put this down payment toward her son s education. meanwhile, he was having this exchange with the president. and the parallels were really just stark there as they tried to figure out a way to get him into school. just under ten minutes left in this segment. norman, oklahoma on the line. abdel, independent. how are you? caller: howdy. doing well. i m not really your regular kind of caller. i m an international student here in the united states. and, well, i was watching c-span about your subjects. i wanted to intervene. i was wondering whether actually the president received any kind of letters fr