barack obama. a note about staffing for the effort reads, with your preliminary approval, we disc s discussed this plan with teaml are ready jump into action upon plan approval. is "the new york times" reporting absolutely wrong or were the plans in place and were there conversations? >> "the new york times" is not reporting there were plans in place. i believe "the new york times" makes clear we did ask for a proposal from strategic perception, his firm. never on reverend wright. if i can back you up and talk about the process, in talking to the media firms we went to, all of them in a process to get business showed previous ads. they did show one ad that was prepared for the mccain campaign and rejected by senator mccain. he did respond to the ad. that is in no way an inference, suggestion or request for anything like that that we have a proposal based on reverend wright. the policy goals have always been and exclusively are related to fiscal responsibility. we never asked for anything based on reverend wright. i never spoke to the man. i don't know who he is. this is all the work and proposal of strategic. th