my job is to say look, here's the topic, or to the view irrelevaners, here is the topic, i want to hear what you have to say. i have to understand where you might go with that topic so i can follow it up and refocus you, you in particular because you tend to get off the subject a lot. so i'm trying to figure out where you might go with this and what follow-up question viewers would want to hear and i think those subjects they either live or die in the first 30 seconds of them. i can tell when i'm setting a subject up and looking at your eyes and nancy and star, if that segment, that subject will live or die by the interest level in your eyes. >> let me challenge you, i see new that segment, you're biting your lip -- >> not my job to give my opinions you try to lure me into that. >> what would be wrong if in that segment, once again i'm not saying your political view, you're biting, you want -- what would break the rules if matt lauer engaged? >> it doesn't and i do. you will hear me by my follow-up questions, i think you're missing the point and let's use one of the comments you made th