i agree with atcham we saw a morely reden of that from justice sotomayor. it's in the end, he is the person we have to thank for this umpire met for. which is not understanding the court. and the real problem westbound this is that the conversation process because it happens under big lights in washington and there are these day night hearings. it could be a touchn't moment. but it completely isn't. and so there's this disconnect. on the one hand you have a amount of worming and coming down from the mountain but before you goat the demourt this moment where your -- we're talking about different threads of injured. perhaps we could get really interesting on explaining some. that's why the plit story gets told so often. we completely lose that opportunity. i'm really ununcertain to doing that. but i'm looking forward to everybody's thoughts. thank you. [applause] >> we're going to throw this open now for questions. we've already had the beginning of a debate about the very nature of the coverage of the court. and we could continue that on the panel. but i wan