we've seen not only in the nomination process for loretta lynch but throughout president obama's entire presidency. let's take a look at the number s here and how we got to lynchominated loretta lynch as attorney general and our friends at vok tif know he's also a statistical anomaly. let's look at this number here. 21.3, that's the average amount of days since 1981 it has taken to confirm a cabinet secretary. and let's take a look at how the past four presidents stacked up. each clock represents one week here. the average confirmation wait time for president obama as you can see, five weeks for george w. bush and for bill clinton, two weeks and three days. george h.w. bush around that same time two weeks and five days. president ronald reagan just under two weeks. interesting when you put it in that perspective but lynch isn't the nominee with the longest wait time. edwin mees was confirmed in 19 1985 why are confirmations getting long there are a couple of things behind it. you have to consider gridlock in washington. check that one as a reason why and also paperwork disclosures and as we've seen here in the case of loretta lynch, it was that one part of the