george clooney rereturned from another visits of the country trying to use the star power to pressure the white house and others into action. time is running out as they prepare for a vote. clooney initialled more action in an important meeting with the president and along with enough projects, john pendergast joins us today. thanks for bringing attention to this. george, first, let me ask you, did you get a good response from the white house? they issued a statement yesterday some might find disappointing saying it's up to the people of sudan and the region. isn't it up to the united states to lead the world, and to be much stronger and proactive in their policy? >> well, i sort of walked away from that meeting with a very different response. you know, we felt that, you know, for the last couple of years or last three or four years since the agreement, the peace agreement in 2005, that there's been some lack of intensity on focusing on what was going -- what was coming. it seems now for the last couple of months and in particular when we met with president obama that he's very focuse