lanny davis is a crisis management expert in discussions with the malaysian government. lanny, you have a list of clients who have gotten jammed up. president clinton, martha stewart, dan snyder. your mantra is tell it early, tell it all. tell it yourself. how does that apply? >> it applies to every case in the terms of putting somebody in jail and you need criminal advice. in this situation, without disclosing anything i said to a possible client relationship with the malaysian government, there are two general rules that really are almost universal. it is part of that mantra that i wrote as a sub title to my white house book. one, transparency and communication is elemental in the starting point. in this case, the tick tock of what happened and laying out is essential. number two, human grief and human need for communication and for personal communication delivery and empathy. that is ais my number two rule. these are not specific advice. >> i know your firm is not formally retained at the moment. i respect that. are there circumstances where the horse has already left