council gonzalez to deliver to the federalist society. and you said in that speech as a matter of constitutional principle, it is simply inappropriate, we believe, to afford any outside group a quasi official role in the president's nomination process. how do you square those two comments about the role of the american bar association in the nomination process with the role of the federalist society in your nomination process? assuming that mr. mcgahn was speaking accurately when he said that they had been insourced to the white house for this process. >> i can speak to the ada part of that. president bush in 2001 had to make a decision of how they should play its usual rating role with respect to nominees and they take files, amicus briefs, policies, positions on