and until i become easy about it, up we become reasonably convinced that won't hurt the sfugs, you're going to get a conservative reaction. that's what i think is -- >> senator, it's maybe unfair to put this this question to you since you're such a youngster here, but do you really -- >> best thing that's been said about me in a long time. >> do you really think the process in the senate has been improved since the proceedings have been televised? >> well, just as you took a pact earlier -- i think there are mixed view, but i think in general openness and trafrns parns city improves institutions. and for all the reasons that you have so elegantly talked about your role in educating the american public, i think that an audio and visual recording of supreme court hearings would potentially do the same. and i think that whatever the result of televising senate proceedings, and i was only i a facetious when i would you would take a pass. i think it has been a step in the right direction of providing transparency and understanding on the part of the public. i'll let you and the public be t