democracy now for more let's bring in a reporter aaron tilton aaron another big day where some things happen maybe other things didn't happen but these letters got sent to the e.u. what is in these letters boris johnson said and what's not in them ok well we know that boris johnson sent 3 documents to the e.u. basically one document was a photocopy of the law which compels him to request for an extension of the bricks a deadline the other one was a letter of intent written actually by a civil servant not by john from self and the 3rd as you just said is actually a letter where johnson himself argued against the extension of the deadline or that's not entirely surprising you have to remember boars johnson's we just heard there said that he doesn't he's not interested in negotiating a break that extension he said he would he would deliver breakfast by the 31st of october do or die so basically what we're seeing here is a little bit of politicking he's trying to play to his base basically saying that look i've applied for an extension even though i said i didn't but technically i didn't