okay. it was president obama's first formal news conference in almost four months. what i mean by that is where he does it in front of reporters and then he takes questions from those reporters. he talked about a lot of stuff, because, boy, this has been a busy week. largely, he was talking about the economy. we're less than two months to midterm elections, and he was talking about his economy, he was talking about help he has announced for small businesses, research and development tax credit that he has called for an expansion of, and middle class tax cut, or actually, allowing those bush tax cuts not to expire at the end of the year for middle class earners. he also talked about his infrastructure proposals. he had committed about $200 billion to -- $300 billion to infrastructure in this past week. there was a question, though, about this -- these millions of dollars -- billions of dollars that the president has committed, because the white house, as you know from our conversations this week, has gone out of its way to say, do