i had an aide next to my ear nearly screaming within the last several minutes when the president was with the italian president in the oval office but it's an example of just how hard they are trying to keep reporters from asking the president questions. obviously they can't be do that in the news conference coming p -- up. you may see the president with the investigation, the president may be tempted to call on somebody in the friendly conservative media to lob a softball at him. we've seen him try to do that before, wolf. >> it's one of these q&a questions. two questions from american questions, two questions from italian journalists, is that right? >> that's right. obviously the president at some of these two plus twos, one thing that we've noticed is at the very end of it, this happened at checkers with