of executive privilege. we have questions that we've asked you about going back to your intelligence committee appearance in june or july. i mean, how long a period of abeyance do you need to get the answer from the white house as to whether these questions a protected or not? you can't have a situation in which the president never has to assert it and the abeyance goes on indefinitely, don't you agree with that? >> well, i think you make a point. but the burden is on those who want to breach a core privilege of the president, which is private conversations with his attorney general, to show precisely what it is that you would like him to waive it on. and that's what your letter failed in. it was sort of the reverse. it said, you have to tell us what you're going to do, want to talk about and what you're not going to talk about it. >> it was intended to refer to the questions as which you had