by the public of bashing this poor man. there's no good time to do stories that some are going to interpret as negative. >> i don't want to let the big organization that's have platoons of reporters off the hook on when they should do stories. i also think we should recognize, everyone out there listening, that these -- these campaigns as the press coverage,volved. you don't do all the stories on everything up front. sometimes you should do the lower hanging ones like you mention good lobbyist. maybe should have done it first. but after all this time in iowa, if there were really things that iowa voters -- not press -- wanted to know, they actually could have just driven in their car and probably gone up and asked a candidate. >> and frankly, that's the beauty of the process, okay. so we haven't even voted in new hampshire yet. we're still orally, and he's getting the scrutiny. nobody is going to get through this process without getting intense scrutiny. nobody with a chance of winning is going to get through this without getting intense scrutiny. i would argue that if anything mitt romney's gotten something of a pass here. you just sketched through all