i mean, it was as if the president truppville fewed president obama for amount of time he says he spent on the golf course. at one time in the campaign he said that he would not have time to golf if he came the president. well, now, you know those reports you cited they're saying -- showing that the president is finding time. of course, the white house is respokening by saying that the president is often using that time to work to what they say he does best and it did come up in today's white house briefing take a listen to what shawn spacer had to say. >> he saw him utilize this as an opportunity with prime minister avay to help foster deeper relationships in southeast asia and asia rather and have a growing relationship that's going help u.s. interests. how you use the game of golf is something he talked b secondly, you know, we went to down to nippy cap net meeting two weekends ago at his club in virginia and i remember so many people jumping to the conclusion he's going and playing golf. because us go somewhere -- on i couple occasions he conducted meeting there and had phone calls