and represented former president bill clinton and two former secretaries of the defense, clark gifford and catherine weinberger in high-profile litigation. fellow of the american college of trial lawyers and its various times served as special counsel to the united states senate, committee on ethics. and isn't author also in his latest book in the ring, the trials about washington lawyer. bob is also the primary author of the national review board report on the crisis of the catholic church in the united states. every 272004. bob, will you please join us. [applause] can you all hear me? bless you. for bob. the national review board conducted a thorough investigation into clerical sexual abuse and reported the number of victims. so why after 14 years are we still learning about grand juries convening across the country to investigate priests who have abused minors? >> well, it is because the bishops really didn't follow all of our recommendations. in fact, we were prohibited from looking into the bishops. our task was simply to look into the priest and we did not have subpoena power and did not have