was, hope was not hope like aspirational. it was i can look, here's my order. >> like if i'm your mother and i say, i hope you brush your teeth. that's like, brush your teeth. >> that's right. or don carleon says to the movie producer, i hope you see it my way and then ends up with a horse head in his bed. it's interesting to me, from wearing my prosecutor's hat, when he said, better hope there are no tapes, that's a threat, as i would read it if i were still a prosecutor. and then when he picks up the same words as, i hope you will drop the investigation, i read those things, i would argue to a jury or anybody else who was trying to be persuaded, those words are not benign but they are directive and that undermines the notion that professor brinkley just said with respect to it being just a passing word of no legal consequence. >> here is one more headline from today.