that this was handled, you know, in a wrong manner and would you do it again differently? he said one-word answer. he said no. that doesn't point to an administration who understands that there is something wrong here. and as much as they want to blame it on the vetting process, to me right here, the vetting process works. the fbi told them the information. the vetting process was not what was wrong here. the vetting process was not what failed. what failed was the moral character and the understanding that having a wife beater in the white house is not something that you should have in the white house, in the oval office, having to do with national security, but also because it's not the right thing to do. >> mike, does it seem to you -- i guess there's one alternative explanation, which is they, you know -- it was sort of held up in this white house -- obscure white house personnel office just to string this along, i mean just to kind of delay answering something which they either didn't know how to deal with or didn't want to deal with, neither of which is