what does the president, what's the white house perspective? >> the president's interest as previously discussioned do not violate the clause for reasons that length that the justice of department filing enumerate in their friday night filings with respect to the crew lawsuit which was the first one. this lawsuit today is another iteration of the case that was filed by that group crew filed by the same lawyers. so it's not hard to conclude that partisan politics may be one of the motivations behind it. the suit was filed by two democratic attorney generals. the lawyers driving the suit are advocacy group with partisan ties. it started with a press conference as opposed to filing it which is interesting. the suit challenges the business transactions that everyone from penny pritsker and others have engaged in while in office. i think we'll continue to move to dismiss this case in the normal course of business. >> i wanted to just -- two questions. but first why leave open this