admired you from afar but never met you before today, i'll admit that i was a little disappointed in choppergates it became known. the helicopter argument. and the reason was that your prosecuting career had so clearly positioned you as a guy that was just completely anti all form of corruption, anything that looked like corruption. and when you just read a bare headline, "governor uses state helicopter to fly to kid's baseball game," you sort of wince a bit. why did you do that? >> because i'm a father first. and because i had demands at the state house and then demands that evening that had been replanned before i knew my son would have a state championship baseball game. and i wanted to be there for him. and i miss a lot of stuff with my kids. and i'm not complaining. that's the nature of my job. and i asked for this job. in fact, i worked hard to get it. but i'm a father first. and that was the way i could get to my son's game that day. >> do you regret it? >> no. i make no apologies for it. >> but you paid the money back? >> i paid the money back because i thought it was important to let th