we would undoubtedly expect the president knew but the introductions appear to come from raum emanuel. that's a farley small group of people. i think the attorney, the u.s. attorney or the f.b.i. should be able to interview the witnesses, come up with an independent pinding in a short period of time. anything else? i want to thank you all for coming today, good-bye. >> congressman head a statement to talk about his conversation with former president clinton about an obama administration appointment that was meant to keep him out of a primary. today the white house acknowledged that an offer was made. he said he never considered any position with the white house. he spoke here for about 15 minutes. >> congressman, what about bringing president clinton into this, we hasn't heard his name mentioned before. why didn't you just say this was the person who was involved in this? this is what he said? why didn't you hear that earlier? >> if pit clinton had called me last summer and, i just didn't feel it was right for me to talk about that conversation with him. >> can you describe what your