166 was the words, but it was very reviewed by a lot of officials. the president dictated it himself to the speech writers. this is something he thought a lot about beforehand. they feel like they had to plan this out for two reasons. the first being the president really feels. horribly for the martin family and wanted to speak to them in a personal way. the second thing is they wanted to make sure the president really spoke directly and encouraged people to remain calm and not have any kind of violent rioting. they felt it was very important to have it come out in the president s words in the first 24 hours. i asked him about any kind of broader action about this. they said this was part of a broader push on gun control, but the white house officials i talked to said there s probably not going to be any kind of broader race speech or broader racial initiative from this case that the president would lead. although, i would say that eric holder today spoke at a group of the deltas, the