and the republicans are playing harder ball than the democrats. the democrats are more respectful of procedures and rules and that sort of thing and the republican come in abboom, playing for power and they have used this tactic, delay, delay, delay. and it s not only stretched it out where they could justify not asking the president to come in but frankly today s hearing would have been much more impactful two or three months ago. the long stretch of time between when people forget the details, hazy, they move on intellectually, i thought the democrats from that point they had a steeper hill to climb today than they would have if they had done this earlier. evan there is the sort of owow when you read the written responses which of course we hadn t seen for so long, right. you know, you read all those, i don t recall, i don t remember. and it does seem to be a joke. and yet it appears that he, you know i don t know the right word but he got away with giving an interview like that