to parse these words, because we ep hearing everyone on one side of the panel saying, i m not going to reveal my recommendation to the president. but here s my opinion of what i thin we should have had. i think they re trying to say those might have been two ver different things, and yes, i think, to your early question, i think it would be helpful if the president will come out flatly and say, here s what they recommended to me and what i decided on. i m the president. rather than playing this game of, well, we can t reveal it cause that s not our job, even though there is nothing preventing them from revealing what they told the president, opener the president himself. d the president himself saying, all right, this is what they said. in that clip with stephanopolous, he s very specific in saying, well, nobody said that number, or nobody said it in the context of his dese to get out by august 31st. so there is a lot of leeway and ggle room that is probably not helpful to anybody, but