dell walters joins me, jamie floyd as well. let me start with you, dell, because you have known this man for how long? 20 years. and i can tell you right now what is going through his mind is how fast it went. this is a man you see him as the attorney general, but he is a man that almost missed it. janet reno didn't step aside. >> yeah. >> so he thought that history had passed him by, the opportunity to be the first african-american attorney general, and then he bet on a long shot, a guy with a strange name, as he referred to himself with the big ears that was running in iowa and nobody knew who barack obama was, because he is supposed to lose to hillary clinton. so he bet on the right party. he won, and then he got the seat, and he is looking back and saying wow,en that went by very fast, but you heard that emotion, and that is because -- >> he was fighting it through a lot of the people, but it really started to come to the surface when he was talking about his late parents. >> he wanted to make sure that he upheld the honor o